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  • In the Crossfire of History

    Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

    by Lava Asaad, Farzana Akhter, Margaret Hageman, Nyla Khan, Shafinur Nahar, Doaa Omran, Carolyn Ownbey, Moumin Quazi, Lucia Garcia-Santana0, Stefanie Sevcik1, Matthew Spencer2 ...
    Series series War Culture
    In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. *In the Crossfire of History:*Women's War ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism

    by Nyla Ali Khan ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, the book addresses the dislocation associated with these phenomena, offering a critical dialogue between these works and contemporary history, using ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir

    by Nyla Ali Khan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. The volume is designed to enable a student of South Asian politics, and the politics of Kashmir in particular, to analyze the ways in which ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir

    Between India and Pakistan

    by Nyla Ali Khan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones

    Transforming, not Transmitting, Trauma

    by Nyla Ali Khan ...
    This book offers fresh and exciting new directions of inquiry into the highly contentious issue of conflict resolution in South Asia. By shifting its gaze from a politics of division mired in ethno-nationalisms into a healing and restorative focus, the author moves the dialogue forward into the realm of community, healing, and shared governance. The book analyzes the major constitutional and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Writings About Kashmir

    Illuminating the Labyrinthine Region

    Edited by Nyla Ali Khan ...
    Any attempt to homogenize Kashmiri society or the politico-cultural discourse on Kashmir is a dangerously flawed exercise. To that end, the chapters in this book address various aspects of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic life in Kashmir. These chapters are interdisciplinary interventions that could potentially bridge ethnic, religiocultural, and political divides in the region. The book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Of Gardens and Graves

    Kashmir, Poetry, Politics

    by Suvir Kaul, Javed Dar ...
    In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990. Kaul's autobiographical and analytical essays, which were prompted by his yearly visits to Kashmir, are a combination of political analysis, literary criticism, memoir, and journalistic observation. In them he explores Kashmir's pre- and post ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Identity and Violence

    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Being Pakistani

    Society, Culture and the Arts

    by Raza Rumi ...
    How different is Pakistan's culture from that of India? Exploring various aspects of the arts, literature and heritage of Pakistan, Raza Rumi argues that culture in Pakistan is not particularly unique to the nation, but rather a part of the cultural identities shared by South Asians. From the songs of Kabir and the ballads of Bulleh Shah to the cult of the feminine in the Sindh region, Rumi takes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Childhood in World History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    Now in its fourth edition, Childhood in World History covers the major developments in the history of childhood from the classical civilizations to the present and explores how agricultural and industrial economies have shaped the experiences of children.Through comparative analysis, Peter N. Stearns facilitates a cross-cultural and transnational understanding of attitudes toward the role of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Sultana's Dream

    And Selections from The Secluded Ones

    by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Hanna Papanek ...
    Series series A Feminist Press Sourcebook
    Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia-a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ABC's of Human Survival

    A Paradigm for Global Citizenship

    by Arthur Clark ...
    Series series Global Peace Studies
    The ABCs of Human Survival examines the effect of militant nationalism and the lawlessness of powerful states on the well-being of individuals and local communities?and the essential role of global citizenship within that dynamic. Based on the analysis of world events, Dr. Arthur Clark presents militant nationalism as a pathological pattern of thinking that threatens our security, while ... Read more

    $17.99 USD