E-Books → Identity, Reasonableness and Being One Among Others Dialogue, Community, Education

Published by: voska89 on 17-01-2023, 00:35 | 0

Laurance Joseph Splitter, "Identity, Reasonableness and Being One Among Others: Dialogue, Community, Education"
English | ISBN: 9811966834 | 2022 | 326 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book brings the tools and ideas of Anglo-American analytic philosophy to bear on how we think about issues of contemporary significance, in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. While acknowledging empirical findings within the social sciences, it takes on the prescriptive task of imagining a better world, in which being citizens in a democracy means actively engaging with others.

E-Books → Speaking the Unspeakable Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States

Published by: voska89 on 8-01-2023, 06:08 | 0

Margaret Abraham, "Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0813527937, 0813527929 | PDF | pages: 255 | 1.4 mb
2002 American Sociology Association Asia/Asian America Section Book Award

E-Books → Salvage Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia

Published by: voska89 on 5-01-2023, 10:45 | 0

Salvage: Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia By Krisna Uk
2016 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1501703021 | PDF | 12 MB
In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia. The Jorai inhabit a remote region largely beyond the reach of the nation-state but have suffered the devastating effects of battles between and within states. Uk focuses on the experience of a Jorai community that experienced violent and protracted international and domestic conflicts―the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge regime. These conflicts had enduring effects on the community's moral fabric, the villagers' activities, and the physical and spiritual environments with which they engage daily. Uk's ethnography is an exploration of a resilient communal life that refuses to surrender its integrity to the blind, destructive forces of modern aerial warfare and that struggles to come to terms with the unintelligible violence unleashed by Cambodia's revolutionary movement. It examines the destructive power and enduring harm that explosive remnants of war inflict on the human body and the social relations. But it also reveals how the local Jorai villagers turn these treacherous and fatal products of foreign technology into precious subsistence items as well as aesthetic and ritualistic objects that will take the souls of the dead on their journey to a better life. Uk demonstrates how the Jorai of Leu can, through their creative and traditional labor, revive the legend of the formidable Jorai warriors by transforming deadly modern weapons into their own war trophies.

E-Books → Among Tigers Fighting to Bring Back Asia's Big Cats [Audiobook]

Published by: voska89 on 1-01-2023, 11:06 | 0

E-Books → Monastery Mornings My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks

Published by: voska89 on 26-12-2022, 10:24 | 0

E-Books → Disrupting the Bystander When #metoo Happens Among Friends

Published by: voska89 on 25-12-2022, 08:57 | 0

Disrupting the Bystander: When #metoo Happens Among Friends By A.V. Flox
2019 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1944934561 | PDF | 5 MB
We were not prepared for #metoo when it blew up Twitter in October 2017. In many ways, we still aren't. What do we do when we learn a friend has been harmed? And what does it mean to be a good friend when someone we love caused the harm? We live in a society that confines survivors to silence. Our only avenues to address harm do little to prevent its recurrence. Trapped within a binary of silence or punishment, it's no wonder so many of us remain paralyzed even as the disclosures continue. Punishment requires both certainty and authority, which most bystanders lack. But once the silence has been broken, we can't return to it. Few of us are strangers to the nagging feeling that arises within that paralysis. We intuit-correctly-that we have some kind of responsibility when harm happens in our communities, but what is it? And if we have responsibility, do we have rights? Combining behavioral neuroscience and insights from those on the frontlines of harm intervention, Disrupting the Bystander helps us break out of paralysis so that we can best support those we love-whether they were hurt or hurt someone else.

E-Books → Defying The Plan Intimate Politics among Palestinian Women in Israel

Published by: voska89 on 24-12-2022, 07:30 | 0

Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe, "Defying "The Plan": Intimate Politics among Palestinian Women in Israel"
English | ISBN: 0253062497 | 2022 | 262 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Living under settler colonialism and patriarchal oppressions, Palestinian women in Israel are expected to operate even the most intimate aspects of their lives according to what some call "The Plan," which dictates everything from clothing, marriage, religion, and sex to how children are born and raised.