This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law, as set within a remote community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level political functioning of Indigenous Laws, which inspires a discussion of how this Law models the relational, influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered kincentric lifeworld. The book argues that Indigenous Law can be examined for the ways in which it is a deliberate, stabilizing and powerful force to maintain communal order in relation to Country, a counter framing to popular and 'soft law or soft power asset' visions of such Laws often held in the national and international imaginary. It is the latter which too often renders this knowledge esoteric and relinquishes it to a category of lore or folklore. This is an open access book
Despite often being dismissed as bizarre, apocalyptic thought has persistent appeal in political life. This book explains apocalyptic thought's political appeal by examining it through the eyes of secular thinkers and makes original contributions to both the history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy
Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally, and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and business opportunities, as well as new types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies represents an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Felix Heidenreich and Florian Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and forms of sociality; in the case of overdose, however, there is a risk of intoxication. In this essay, Felix Heidenreich, Florian Weber-Stein, and, in a detailed interview, Bernard Stiegler analyze this complex change in our world and develop new skills to use digital pharmaka
Walking the Gendered Tightrope analyzes the gendered expectations for women in high offices through the examples of British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Even at their highest positions, and while completing their greatest achievements, both May and Pelosi faced gendered critiques and intraparty challenges to their leadership. While other books have analyzed the barriers to higher office that women face, this book reveals how women in positions of power are still forced to balance feminine stereotypes with the perception of power as masculine in order to prove their legitimacy. By examining intraparty dynamics, this book offers a unique comparison between a majoritarian presidential and Westminster parliamentary system. While their parties promoted Pelosi and May to highlight their progressive values, both women faced continually gendered critiques about their abilities to lead their caucuses on difficult policy issues, such as the Affordable Care Act and two Trump impeachment votes for Nancy Pelosi, or finishing Brexit for Theresa May. Grounded in the legislative literature from the United States and Britain, as well as historical accounts and personal interviews, Walking the Gendered Tightrope contributes to the fields of gender and politics, legislative studies, American politics, and British politics
Introduction -- Unit Outline. Lesson 1: Selfhood and Individualism ; Lesson 2: Education ; Lesson 3: The Self as a Work of Art ; Lesson 4: Women's Roles: Domesticity and/or Liberty? ; Lesson 5: Gender, Power, and Political Theory ; Lesson 6: Faith and Belief ; Lesson 7: Law and Politics ; Lesson 8: Popular Culture -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading.
Souverainete, autonomie et subjectivites politiques autochtones en Mesoamerique et dans les Andes / Martin Hebert et Stephanie Rousseau -- Sortir du colonial en Oceanie ou comment reconquerir sa souverainete en situation de minorisation / Natacha Gagne et Marie Salaün -- La souverainete à l'aune de la militance des peuples autochtones du Guatemala / Martin Hebert, Ignacio Ochoa et Lucas Aguenier -- L'autonomie autochtone "sous tutelle" en Bolivie / Stephanie Rousseau et Hernán Manrique -- Le Perou : des assises de la communaute au projet politique de la nation autochtone / Raphaël Colliaux et Stephanie Rousseau -- Souverainetes intriquees, contestees et concurrentes : la difficile construction d'un pouvoir local aux îles Marquises / Pascal-Olivier Pereira de Grandmont -- La grammaire de l'emancipation polynesienne et ses paradoxes / Natacha Gagne -- "Se constituer en "societe civile"" : l'apres 1994 au Chiapas / Éric Gagnon Poulin -- Être jeune, conscient, implique et libre de se determiner : regard ethnographique sur une bande de jeunes Kanak de Kone (Nouvelle-Caledonie) / Ève Desroches-Maheux -- Danser pour transformer la nation : l'entrada folklorique de l'Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz (Bolivie) / Marie-Ève Paquet -- Affirmation de soi et autodetermination : le tatouage en Polynesie française / Catherine Charest -- OEuvrer à la decolonisation de la societe neo-zelandaise grâce à l'art : le cas des femmes artistes contemporaines māori / Catherine Pellini.
This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women's writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and politics. The neologism 'interfeminism' – coined to partner Kristin Bluemel's 'intermodernism' – locates this group chronologically and ideologically between two 'waves' of feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them. Drawing attention to the strengths of this 'out-of-category' writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the interwar and postwar periods pave the way for the bold reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and third wave feminism. The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman's Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings of the literature of a transformative period of British social and cultural history. List of contributors: Natasha Periyan, Eleanor Reed, Maroula Joannou , Lola Serraf, Sue Kennedy, Ana Ashraf, Chris Hopkins, Gill Plain, Lucy Hall, Katherine Cooper, Nick Turner, Maria Elena Capitani, James Underwood, and Jane Thomas
