Exploring the Beloved Country
Title | Exploring the Beloved Country PDF eBook |
Author | Wilbur Zelinsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Cry, the Beloved Country
Title | Cry, the Beloved Country PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Paton |
Publisher | Longman Publishing Group |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780582530096 |
The Burning Forest
Title | The Burning Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Nandini Sandar |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2019-04-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 178873145X |
An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed Over the past decade, the heavily forested, mineral-rich region of Bastar in central India has emerged as one of the most militarized sites in the country. The government calls the Maoist insurgency the “biggest security threat” to India. In 2005, a state-sponsored vigilante movement, the Salwa Judum, burned hundreds of villages, driving their inhabitants into state-controlled camps, drawing on counterinsurgency techniques developed in Malaysia, Vietnam and elsewhere. Apart from rapes and killings, hundreds of “surrendered” Maoist sympathizers were conscripted as auxiliaries. The conflict continues to this day, taking a toll on the lives of civilians, security forces and Maoist cadres. In 2007, Sundar and others took the Indian government to the Supreme Court over the human rights violations arising out of the conflict. In a landmark judgment in 2011 the court banned state support for vigilantism. The Burning Forest describes this brutal war in the heart of India, and what it tells us about the courts, media and politics of the country. The result is a fascinating critical account of Indian democracy.
Understanding Cry, the Beloved Country
Title | Understanding Cry, the Beloved Country PDF eBook |
Author | Ngwarsungu Chiwengo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Apartheid in literature |
ISBN |
Cry, the Beloved Country
Title | Cry, the Beloved Country PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | South Africa |
ISBN | 9780190403942 |
Diepkloof
Title | Diepkloof PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Paton |
Publisher | New Africa Books |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Engelse letterkunde |
ISBN | 9780864860439 |
The Enigma of Ethnicity
Title | The Enigma of Ethnicity PDF eBook |
Author | Wilbur Zelinsky |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2001-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1587293390 |
In The Enigma of Ethnicity Wilbur Zelinsky draws upon more than half a century of exploring the cultural and social geography of an ever-changing North America to become both biographer and critic of the recent concept of ethnicity. In this ambitious and encyclopedic work, he examines ethnicity's definition, evolution, significance, implications, and entanglements with other phenomena as well as the mysteries of ethnic identity and performance. Zelinsky begins by examining the ways in which “ethnic groups” and “ethnicity” have been defined; his own definitions then become the basis for the rest of his study. He next focuses on the concepts of heterolocalism—the possibility that an ethnic community can exist without being physically merged—and personal identity—the relatively recent idea that one can concoct one's own identity. In his final chapter, which is also his most provocative, he concentrates on the multifaceted phenomenon of multiculturalism and its relationship to ethnicity. Throughout he includes a close look at African Americans, Hispanics, and Jews as well as such less-studied groups as suburbanized Japanese, Cubans in Washington, Koreans, Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago, Estonians in New Jersey, Danish Americans in Seattle, and Finns. Reasonable, nonpolemical, and straightforward, Zelinsky's text is invaluable for readers wanting an in-depth overview of the literature on ethnicity in the United States as well as a well-thought-out understanding of the meanings and dynamics of ethnic groups, ethnicity, and multiculturalism.