English | 2020 | ISBN: 1350098566 | 440 pages | True EPUB | 4.65 MB
Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this volume examines the patterns of public discourse in Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of the Ukrainian Crisis in 2014. It investigates the trends in language aggression, evaluation, persuasion and other elements of conflict communication related to the situation. Through the analysis of the linguistic features of salient discourses and prevalent narratives constructed by different social groups,Language of Conflictreflects competing worldviews of various stakeholders in this conflict and presents multiple, often contradictory, visions of the circumstances.

Queer Literacies - Discourses and Discontents
pdf | 1.79 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1793617813 | Author: Mark McBeth | Year: 2019

Mathew George, "Institutionalizing Illness Narratives: Discourses on Fever and Care from Southern India"
English | 2016 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 9811019045 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also the history of medicine. This association between fevers and medicine is as relevant today, as this in-depth study of fever care reveals. Acknowledging the central role of health institutions in creating and propagating notions about illness in society, the author examines fever care through a study of hospitals.

India's Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency By Suchitra Shenoy-Packer
2014 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0739184776 | PDF | 2 MB
This study investigates Indian working women's sense of the discourses surrounding work and careers. In interviews conducted with seventy-seven women across socioeconomic statuses, castes, classes, and occupational and generational categories in the city of Pune, India, women express how feeling bound by tradition confronts excitement about ongoing changes in the country. The work lives of these women are influenced symbiotically by India's sociocultural practices and the contemporary phenomenon of globalization. Using feminist standpoint theory as a theoretical lens, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer explores how women deconstruct, coconstruct, and reconstruct systems of knowledge about their worlds of work as embedded within and influenced by the intersections of society, socialization, and individual agency. The meanings that Indian women associate with their work as well as their definition of a career in twenty-first-century India will be of interest to students and scholars of feminist theory, women's studies, globalization, Asian studies, and labor studies.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1138805629 | 271 pages | True PDF | 11.81 MB
This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be universal in understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millions of people across very different cultures. It further challenges forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment that have been rolled out as standard and ultimate solutions to reduce the risk of disaster. Ultimately, the book encourages the emergence of a more diverse set of world views/senses and ways of knowing for both studying disasters and informing policy and practice of disaster risk reduction. Such pluralism is essential to better reflect local realities of what disasters actually are around the world.

The Future of Work in the United States: Discourses on Automation and the Platform Economy
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030823067 | 409 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book presents and analyzes how restructuring processes due to technological change are reflected and processed in political and public discourses in the United States in the most recent past. More specifically, this work examines how the themes of automation, digitization, and the platform economy and their impact on the future of work are reflected in public discourse through the analysis of journalistic articles, and political discourse through the analysis of congressional hearings.

Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Epictetus, translated by Robert Dobbin
English | November 25, 2008 | ISBN: 0140449469 | EPUB | 304 pages | 2.2 MB
'I must die. But must I die bawling?'

Critical Discourses of Old Age and Telecare Technologies | 5.63 MB
English | 157 Pages

Title: Critical Discourses of Old Age and Telecare Technologies
Author: Akdur, Gizdem;
Year: 2020

Kåre Johan Mjør, "Russia as Civilization: Ideological Discourses in Politics, Media and Academia "
English | ISBN: 0367493853 | 2020 | 250 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Analyzing the use of civilization in Russian-language political and media discourses, intellectual and academic production, and artistic practices, this book discusses the rise of civilizational rhetoric in Russia and global politics.

The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws (Discourses of Law) by Peter Goodrich, Thanos Zartaloudis
2021 | ISBN: 0367566583, 0367566591 | English | 248 pages | PDF | 38 MB
Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved institutions and an ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start than with the non-laws or imaginary legislations of a realm yet to come.