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“klaus neumann”

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  • Across the Seas

    Australia's Response to Refugees: A History

    by Klaus Neumann ...
    In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation. He places the Australian story in the context of global refugee movements, and international responses to them.Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Historical Justice

    Edited by Klaus Neumann ...
    The yearning for historical justice – that is, for the redress of past wrongs – has become one of the defining features of our age. Governments, international bodies and civil society organisations address historical injustices through truth commissions, tribunals, official apologies and other transitional justice measures. Historians produce knowledge of past human rights violations, and museums, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Man Booker Prize Winner)

    A Novel

    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction

    by Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq or Lebanon, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these 'danger zones' - in Europe or the US ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors

    Against the Double Blackmail

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Popular philosopher and leftist rabble-rouser Slavoj Zizek looks at one of the most desperate situations of our time: the current refugee crisis overwhelming EuropeIn this short yet stirring book, Slavoj Zizek—called “the Elvis of cultural history” by The New York Times—argues that accepting all comers or blocking all entry are both untenable solutions . . . But there is a third option.Today, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Noam Chomsky

    by Wolfgang Sperlich ...
    Series Book 8 - Critical Lives
    Noam Chomsky has become the acknowledged supreme anti-authoritarian figure of our age. A prolific writer, researcher and critical thinker, he has shaped contemporary linguistics, philosophy and liberal thought like no other. Volumes on Chomsky abound, yet an approachable and up-to-date introduction to the man and his life has until now been lacking, due perhaps to the sometimes dense and technical ... Read more

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  • Multilingualism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John C. Maher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can't we all speak one language, like English or Esperanto? And what makes a person bilingual? Multilingualism, language diversity in society, is a perfect ... Read more

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  • Archive Stories

    Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

    by Durba Ghosh, Jeff Sahadeo, Craig Robertson, Tony Ballantyne ...
    Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Report on the Afterlife of Culture

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with front-line reporting on events such as the end of the Cold War in Poland and African reactions to the G8 Summit. ... Read more

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  • Conviviality at the Crossroads

    The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters

    Edited by Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi ...
    Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post ... Read more

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  • Shadows of War

    A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Efrat Ben-Ze’ev, Ruth Ginio, Jay Winter ...
    Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These essays show that ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Memory and Genocide

    On What Remains and the Possibility of Representation

    Edited by Fazil Moradi, Ralph Buchenhorst, Maria Six-Hohenbalken ...
    Series series Memory Studies: Global Constellations
    This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation which ... Read more

    $68.99 USD