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For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language

The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and performance across the region diverged. However, by the end of the 1980s, in the face of economic collapse Guyana had abandoned its strategy of ""cooperative socialism"", and its economic policies converged with those generally supported by the IMF and World Bank. Despite this policy convergence and sh

Handbook of Forensic Pathology, Second Edition is an up-to-date, concise manual illustrating all core aspects of modern forensic pathology. This edition retains the outline format of the original, which allows for quick access and rapid assimilation. Written in no-nonsense, easily understandable language, this precise and thorough yet compact resource contains extensively detailed entries from two of the nation's foremost authorities on gunshot wounds and forensic pathology. With numerous instructional charts and diagrams and color photographs, it organizes a wealth of instructional and immedi

Weaving Relationships tells the remarkable, little-known story of a movement that transcends barriers of geography, language, culture, and economic disparity. The story begins in the early 1980s, when 200,000 Maya men, women, and children crossed the Guatemalan border into Mexico, fleeing genocide by the Guatemalan army and seeking refuge. A decade later, many of the refugees returned to their homeland along with 140 Canadians, members of ""Project Accompaniment"". The Canadians were there, by their side, to provide companionship and, more significantly, as an act of solidarity. Weav

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Joseph Henry Oates: a world of madeira and honey; 2 In search of the British middle class; Labels, languages and discourses; Structures of material resource; Stories, narratives and histories; 3 Reading the wills: a window on family and property; The Leeds probate cohort, 1830-34; Law, custom and practice; Men and children; 4 The property cycle; Robert Jowitt, woolstapler; William Hey, surgeon: human capital and real estate; Choices; The mortgage men; John Jowitt's story.

Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theatre has managed to shrug off its colonial shackles to become an important site of community expression. This groundbreaking comparative study discusses the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions. It argues that certain forms of theatre can be read as emerging oppositional cult

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Editor's Introduction: Mimesis and the Division of Labor -- A Personal Itinerary -- I. A Personal Itinerary -- 1. The Order of the City -- 2. The Order of Discourse -- II. Marx's Labor -- 3. The Shoemaker and the Knight -- 4. The Production of the Proletarian -- 5. The Revolution Conjured Away -- 6. The Risk of Art -- III. The Philosopher and the Sociologist -- 7. The Marxist Horizon -- 8. The Philosopher's Wall -- 9. The Sociologist King -- For Those Who Want More -- Afterword to the English-Language Edition (2002) -- Notes

"First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures

This book is intended for those who aspire to become a private investigator and/or process server, and for those already engaged in such occupations who want to expand the breadth and depth of their professional knowledge. It serves as a comprehensive manual of procedures, concepts, forms, and technical guidelines presented in plain, clear language yet with substantial depth of technical knowledge. The text also incorporates the physics of optics and kinetics but in a simplified style that is easily understood. The author provides checklists of equipment business forms, licensing information

A balanced assessment, based on currently available scientific knowledge, of the effects that climate change may have on the environment in Europe and the health of its populations. Written in non-technical language, the book responds to growing public and political concern about the consequences of such widely publicized phenomena as global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion. The book also responds to evidence that recent warming trends in Europe have already affected health. The book opens with a brief explanation of the causes of climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion, foll

Can politics now be both radical and realistic? Gramsci and Contemporary Politics is a collection of Anne Showstack Sassoon's writing which spans the major transitions from Thatcher and Reagan to Clinton and Blair; the collapse of communism to the regeneration of social democracy. Applying original interpretations of Antonio Gramsci's ideas on the intellectuals, political language, civil society and political leadership, she argues that drawing from the past, and broadening contemporary sources of political and academic knowledge can contribute to a grounded, radical hegemonic politic.

ch. 1. Feminism and individualism : identity and difference, ideology and rearticulation -- ch. 2. Mothering and the emergence of feminism : challenging and recuperating individualism -- ch. 3. Mothering and difference feminism : the problem of embodiment -- ch. 4. The body as situation : implications for mothering -- ch. 5. Maternal thinking : practice and standpoint, experience and narrative -- ch. 6. Embodiment and discourse : positioning maternal subjectivity in language -- ch. 7. Mothering and psychoanalysis : the persistence of the dilemma of difference -- ch. 8. Mothering and women's experience : the desires of feminist theory.

"This book addresses the question of metaphor in Nietzsche. It provides an unusual reading of Nietzsche's ideas (particularly of the central concept of will to power) and an incisive method for investigating his style. Developing work on Nietzsche undertaken by Derrida and the post-structuralists, Kofman shows how Nietzsche's style influences his ideas and how these ideas are to be understood. Since its first publication in France in 1972, this work has been a major influence on readings of Nietzsche and this English-language translation should be widely welcomed."--Bloomsbury Publishing

First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the 'political' and the 'social', the 'public' and 'private', and 'state' and 'society'. The reissue will be of great value to students in both sociology and political science.Bringing new arguments to bear on the debate about the place of political theory in social science, the contributors discuss such issues as the different languages us.

Heidegger's "Creative Landscapes: Why do we remain in the provinces?" and "Dialogue on Language" reveal the importance of rootedness for his existentialism. The article engages with the provinciality of Heidegger's thought by juxtaposing his solitary "hut existence" to Buddhist compassion and the urban aesthetics of Kuki Shūzō. Turning to the East allows for a deprovincialization of Heideggerian themes. The rich philosophical legacy of reflecting on intercultural modernization and urbanization processes in East Asian philosophical traditions presents a genuine opportunity to rethink what it means to dwell today.