Contested Borders: Territorialization, National Identity and «Imagined Geographies» in Albania (Nationalisms across the Globe) By Ilir Kalemaj
2014 | 267 Pages | ISBN: 3034317840 | PDF | 10 MB
This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in the development of political agendas that have the potential to shift national borders. The author uses Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding of the Albanian nation has taken on varying geographical borders over time and why different Albanian communities have often had differing perceptions of the borders of the nation. On the basis of this case study, the author constructs a theoretical model that captures the dynamic of domestic versus international constraints on elite choices and analyses how this leads to the (re)construction of borders. The book explores the way in which competing elites manipulate national symbols to create the necessary environment for personal political gain, using both expansionist and contractionist versions of «virtual» borders that may or may not be congruent with internationally recognized borders.

Awino Okech, "Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya "
English | ISBN: 0367077671 | 2019 | 92 pages | EPUB | 223 KB
This book examines the practice of widow inheritance in order to explore the intersection between power, gender and sexualities in Kenya.

Billy J. Stratton, George E. Tinker, Frances Washburn, "Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War"
English | 2013 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0816530289 | PDF | 2,0 mb
The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, published in 1682, is often considered the first "best seller" to be published in North America. Since then, it has long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian captivity. After an attack on the Puritan town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, in February 1676, Rowlandson was held prisoner for more than eleven weeks before eventually being ransomed. The account of her experiences, published six years later, soon took its place as an exemplar of the captivity narrative genre and a popular focal point of scholarly attention in the three hundred years since.

Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (Volume 2) "
English | ISBN: 0520381858 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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Syaru Shirley Lin, "Taiwan's China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy"
English | ISBN: 0804796653 | 2016 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
China and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an improved political relationship, let alone progress toward the unification that both governments once claimed to seek. In addition, Taiwan's recent Sunflower Movement succeeded in obstructing deeper economic ties with China. Why has Taiwan's policy toward China been so inconsistent?

Jane L. Parpart, "Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains "
English | ISBN: 1138746517 | 2018 | 168 pages | EPUB | 1416 KB
Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a wide range of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have been contested in feminist research, and their impact on how agency is understood and performed, particularly in situations of conflict and insecurity.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1512823163 | 177 pages | True PDF EPUB | 36.47 MB
Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or signs of conflict, producing a complex bodily archive of cross-cultural entanglement.

Kerstin Blome, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Hannah Franzki, "Contested Regime Collisions: Norm Fragmentation in World Society"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1107126576 | PDF | pages: 396 | 3.0 mb
This collection of innovative contributions to the study of legal pluralism in international and transnational law focuses on collisions and conflicts between an increasing number of institutional and legal orders, which can manifest themselves in contradictory decisions or mutual obstruction. It combines theoretical approaches from a variety of disciplines with theoretically informed case studies in order to further understanding of the phenomenon of regime collisions. By bringing together scholars of international law, legal philosophy, the social sciences and postcolonial studies from Latin America, the United States and Europe, the volume demonstrates that collisions between various institutional and legal orders affect different regions in different ways, highlights some of their problematic consequences, and identifies methods of addressing such collisions in a more productive manner.

L. Monique Pittman, "Shakespeare's Contested Nations "
English | ISBN: 0367488310 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Shakespeare's Contested Nations examines the way in which performed Shakespearean history replicates exclusions, critiques narrative omissions, and affords opportunities to tell new stories about the nation as an ever-changing multicultural body.

Giorgio Grappi, "Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice: Europe and the Global Dimension "
English | ISBN: 0367893983 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This book discusses the politics of justice in relation to migration addressing both the controversies of governance and the active role of migrants' struggles in shaping the materiality of justice.