Gay Bombay; globalization, love and (be)longing in contemporary India - Parmesh Shahani
Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, the author provides macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point in time. Specifically, he...
Amin Maalouf beschrijft zijn groeiende gevoel van vervreemding ten opzichte van een wereld die uit het lood is geslagen en bijna alleen nog bestaat uit de onrust over de economie, het klimaat en de veranderende normen en moraal. De ideologische verschillen tussen Oost en West...
I live here - Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons
The plight of refugees and displaced people around the globe is captured in four volumes that bring together stories, journals, images, and graphic novels that capture life in four separate crisis zones--war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and...
Turkije wil lid worden van de Europese Unie maar is het land eigenlijk wel klaar voor lidmaatschap? De laatste jaren werd het land geplaagd door crisis op crisis. In 2007 verbood het Opperste Gerechtshof op een haar na de AK-partij van premier Erdogan omdat deze de seculiere...
Cosmoplitanism; a philosophy for global ethics - Stan van Hooft
Cosmopolitanism has relevance for international distributive justice; peace; human rights; environmental sustainability; protection for minorities, refugees and other oppressed groups; democratic participation; and intercultural tolerance. The book does not aim to impart...
Schurkeneconomie; de duistere kanten van een neiuwe wereldorde - Loretta Napoleoni
Wereldwijde financiële crisis?
Ineenstorting hypotheekmarkten?
Pikzwarte beursdagen?
Allemaal uitingen van de Schurkeneconomie
Wat hebben Oost-Europa's bloeiende seksindustrie, de hypotheekcrisis in de VS, China's handel in namaakproducten en Hollywoods donatiedrift...
Womens Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades.
It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement...
Other cities, other worlds; urban imaginaries in a globalizing age - Andreas Huyssen
"Other Cities, Other Worlds" brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers...
With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right, who have become influential in the policy-making of...
The industrial vagina; the political economy of the global sex trade - Sheila Jeffreys
The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.
The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of...
