Free Download Rahul Gairola, "Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783489723, 1783489731 | PDF | pages: 273 | 1.9 mb
Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It critically engages with Foucault's notions of "biopolitics" and "governmentality" as a conjoined technology of governance in the era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the global economy from the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in the UK and USA whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class, and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, comparative literature, Race and Ethnicity studies, and Queer studies.

Free Download Toula Drimonis, "We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada"
English | ISBN: 1773901214 | 2022 | 223 pages | EPUB | 774 KB
Ungrateful, opportunistic, moochers, dangerous, incompatible with our values and our way of life?

Free Download Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye, "An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants "
English | ISBN: 0231211430 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 12 MB
After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities opened residences for them known as "foyers." Initially intended to contain the West African population, these hostels for single men fostered the emergence of Black communities in the heart of Paris and other cities. More recently, however, a nationwide renovation program sought to replace the collective living arrangements of foyers with more individualized spaces by constructing new buildings or drastically reshaping existing ones―and casting the West African presence as a threat to French identity.

Free Download Nora Krug, "Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home"
English | 2019 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 1476796629, 1476796637 | PDF | 97,1 mb
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *

Free Download The Practice of Belonging: Six Lessons from Vibrant Communities to Combat Loneliness, Foster Diversity, and Cultivate Caring Relationships by Lisa Kentgen
English | April 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1623177634 | 233 pages | PDF | 1.70 Mb
An inspirational guide to the 6 core qualities of healthy communities, for anyone looking to build community as a source of connection and a vehicle for social change

Free Download Fostering Belonging and Inclusion for Managers and Leaders
Released 11/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 41m | Size: 137 MB
Belonging is no longer just a nice-to-have, but rather an imperative for organizational success, especially in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world where human beings are an organization's most powerful asset. Furthermore, recent research has shown that a sense of psychological safety is one of the most reliable predictors of revenue growth. So, how do you nurture a safe work environment that allows your workforce to unleash its true, inner potential?

Free Download Paul O'Connor, "Home: The Foundations of Belonging "
English | ISBN: 0367332825 | 2019 | 198 pages | EPUB | 853 KB
Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and 'taking back control'. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a trend with implications for the future shape of families and communities. The dominant conceptualisations of home in the twentieth century - the nation-state and the suburban nuclear household - are in crisis, yet they continue to shape our personal and political aspirations.

Free Download Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire by Gabrielle Moser
English | January 11, 2019 | ISBN: 0271081279, 0271081287 | True EPUB | 248 pages | 45.8 MB
In Projecting Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British government's Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the beginning of the twentieth century―a series of lantern slide lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel like an imperial citizen.

Free Download Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B4BQD9X5 | 2023 | 10 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 298 MB
Author: Michelle Miller
Narrator: Michelle Miller
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother-a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle's father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton's first Black city councilman-hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, "Go and find your mother."

Free Download Michael Jackson, "Quandaries of Belonging: Notes on Home, from Abroad"
English | ISBN: 1785276417 | 2020 | 198 pages | EPUB | 461 KB
Quandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the author's relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.