Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict, and Identity in the Margins of Europe By Costas Constandinides, Yiannis Papadakis
2014 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1623561310 | PDF | 2 MB
Cyprus, the idyllic "island of Aphrodite," is better known as a site of conflict and division between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, rather than for its film production. Constandinides and Papadakis work to rectify this dearth of information by discussing the ouevre of filmmakers engaging with the island's traumatic legacies: anti-colonial struggles, post-colonial instability, interethnic conflict, external interventions and war. Starting with the cinema of the 1960s, when the island became a republic, the collection focuses on the recent decades of filmmakers exploring issues of conflict, memory, identity, nationalism, migration and gender, as well as the work of filmmakers who chose to cooperate across the ethnic divide. Cypriot Cinemas utilizes a methodology that engages all necessary perspectives for an illuminating critical discussion: historical, theoretical and comparative (Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot films in relation to regional film cultures/practices). While the volume develops a discussion based on the reading of the political in Cypriot films, it also looks at other film cultures and debates such as (s)exploitation films and transnational cinema.

Hajimu Masuda, "Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World"
English | 2015 | pages: 396 | ISBN: 0674598474 | PDF | 3,7 mb
What was the Cold War? A simple definition might be: a 20th century international confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, which involved, first, Europe, and then Asia, Africa, and Latin America, eventually dividing the world into two camps. The key players in this global conflict are generally identified as a number of high-ranking policymakers, including Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. We know this story. However, the full story is not so simple. It is time to change our ways of thinking about the Cold War.

Scott M. Moore, "Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins"
English | ISBN: 0190864109 | 2018 | 288 pages | PDF | 17 MB
The prospect of international conflict over water has long been the subject of academic and popular concern, but subnational political conflict is considerably more common, and almost certainly imposes greater economic and environmental costs. Indeed, subnational hydropolitics are an important

Nancy Rankie Shelton, "Literacy Policies and Practices in Conflict: Reclaiming Classrooms in Networked Times"
English | ISBN: 0415527414 | 2014 | 188 pages | PDF | 1361 KB
Current U.S. school reform efforts link school success, student achievement, and teacher performance to standardized tests and narrowly prescribed curricula. How do test-driven, mandated curricula in urban school systems overtly and subtly impact teachers' efforts to provide technologically advanced, challenging classroom environments that foster literacy development for all students? How do these federal policies affect instruction at the classroom level?

Ben Hillman, Gray Tuttle, "Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0231169981 | PDF | pages: 278 | 1.3 mb
Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded―the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others.

Culture War: Conflict, Commemoration and the Contemporary Abbey Theatre By Holly Maples
2011 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 3034301375 | PDF | 2 MB
The Irish National Theatre Society began its centenary in 2004 with ambitious theatrical events at home and abroad. By the end of the year, however, the company was close to financial ruin, culminating in its dissolution and subsequent reestablishment. The financial crisis was only one element of controversy during the centenary year. During this period, the remit of the Abbey Theatre as a house for the performance of Irish identity and new Irish writing was brought into question. While debates unfolded over the artistic and financial crises, many commentators queried the very nature of, or need for, a national theatre in twenty-first-century Ireland. Examining organizational issues such as finance and public policy, as well as wider questions about the representation of Irishness on the national stage and the shaping of collective memory through commemoration, this book questions the way that the private concerns of the Irish National Theatre reflect greater issues within Irish society. Drawing together personal interviews, government documents, media sources and comparative studies from the history of the Republic, the author interweaves current and past crises of the Abbey Theatre with the social, cultural and financial anxieties of an evolving Ireland.

Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture: Conflict, Resistance, and Agency By Mieke Bal, Miguel Hern Ndez-Navarro, Miguel A. Hernandez-Navarro
2012 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 9042032634 | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores the idea that art can enact small-scale resistances against the status quo in the social domain. These acts, which we call "little resistances," determine the limited yet potentially powerful political impact of art. From different angles, seventeen authors consider the spaces where art events occur as "political spaces," and explore how such spaces host events of disagreements in migratory culture. The newly coined word "migratory" refers to the sensate traces of the movements of migration that characterize contemporary culture. In other words, movement is not an exceptional occurrence in an otherwise stable world, but a normal, generalized process in a world that cannot be grasped in terms of any given notion of stability. Thus the book offers fresh reflections on art's power to move people, in the double sense of that verb, and shows how it helps to illuminate migratory culture's contributions to this process.

Models of Conflict and Cooperation by David Housman PDF | 6.92 MB
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Title: Models of Conflict and Cooperation
Author: Rick Gillman, David Housman
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Rajan Menon, "Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order "
English | ISBN: 0262029049 | 2015 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1154 KB
The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia's relations with the West.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict: The Impossible Suddenly Became Possible by Col Jeffrey Kenney
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TWY6Q28 | EPUB | 0.12 Mb
As the Russia-Ukraine Conflict rages on, the impossible has become possible. Shifts are occurring at a dizzying pace that no one could have imagined.