Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language by Ayelet Tsabari
English | October 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1771667141 | 242 pages | EPUB | 1.22 Mb
In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral language along with the loss of community and highlight the empowerment that comes with reclamation. Others celebrate the joys of learning a new language and the power of connection. All underscore how language can offer both transformation and collective healing.

Debra Thompson, "The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1982182466 | 288 pages | AZW3 / MOBI | 7.8 MB
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In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship By Jillian M. Báez
2018 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0252041798 | PDF | 2 MB
In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in particular, make sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media. Jillian M. Báez's eye-opening ethnographic analysis draws on the experiences of a diverse group of Latinas in Chicago. In-depth interviews reveal Latinas viewing media images through a lens of citizenship. These women search for nothing less than recognition-and belonging-through representations of Latinas in films, advertising, telenovelas, and TV shows like Ugly Betty and Modern Family. Báez's personal interactions and research merge to create a fascinating portrait, one that privileges the perspectives of the women themselves as they consume media in complex, unpredictable ways. Innovative and informed by a wealth of new evidence, In Search of Belonging answers important questions about the ways Latinas perform citizenship in today's America.

Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy by Mark Schaefer
English | December 20, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQCRN6JQ | 195 pages | EPUB | 0.57 Mb
Bestselling author and futurist Mark Schaefer explains why community is a vastly overlooked marketing opportunity for most organizations. He explains how three major trends are colliding in a way that makes brand communities the future of marketing strategy. Highlights include:How community relates to the emotional connections developed via social media and contentWhy demographic, technological, and societal trends favor a new community strategyA new view of the ROI of communityHow a community strategy upends traditional marketing managementThe psychological connection between communities and brandsWhy NFTs and the metaverse change the game for community strategyPowerful brand benefits overlooked by most community strategies todayThrough extensive research, diverse case studies, and expert interviews, Schaefer provides an inspiring, compelling and actionable blueprint for the modern brand community.

Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dellheim
English | September 21, 2021 | ISBN: 1684580560 | True EPUB | 672 pages | 31.1 MB
The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder.

Neeti Nair, "Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia"
English | ISBN: 0674238273 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 5 MB
An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.

Catherine Wanner, "Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine"
English | ISBN: 1501764950 | 2022 | 246 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine reveals how and why religion has become a pivotal political force in a society struggling to overcome the legacy of its entangled past with Russia and chart a new future. If Ukraine is "ground zero" in the tensions between Russia and the West, religion is an arena where the consequences of conflicts between Russia and Ukraine keenly play out.

Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities by Susie Wise
English | April 19, 2022 | ISBN: 1984858033 | 160 pages | PDF (Converted) | 14 Mb
A practical, illustrated guide to using the tools of design to create feelings of inclusion, collaboration, and respect in groups of any type or size-a classroom, a work team, an international organization-from Stanford University's d.school.

Simone Brioni, "The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in Minor Italian Literature"
English | 2015 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 0367606283, 190966264X | PDF | 7,8 mb
The recent histories of Italy and Somalia are closely linked. Italy colonized Somalia from the end of the 19th century to 1941, and held the territory by UN mandate from 1950 to 1960. Italy is also among the destination countries of the Somali diaspora, which increased in 1991 after civil war. Nonetheless, this colonial and postcolonial cultural encounter has often been neglected. Critically evaluating Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of 'minor literature', as well as drawing on postcolonial literary studies, The Somali Within analyses the processes of linguistic and cultural translation and self-translation, the political engagement with race, gender, class and religious discrimination, and the complex strategies of belonging and unbelonging at work in the literary works in Italian by authors of Somali origins. Brioni proposes that the 'minor' Somali Italian connection might offer a major insight into the transnational dimension of contemporary 'Italian' literature and 'Somali' culture.

Staging Citizenship: Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania By Ioana Szeman
2017 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1785337300 | PDF | 4 MB
Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental organizations and state agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects' remarkably varied lives and experiences.