Pain, Pride, and Politics
Title | Pain, Pride, and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Amarnath Amarasingam |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820348120 |
Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil movement was being crushed by the Sri Lankan armed forces. His work provides an in-depth examination of how a separatist sociopolitical movement beginning in Sri Lanka is carried forward, altered, and adapted by the diaspora.
Pain, Pride, and Politics
Title | Pain, Pride, and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Amarnath Amarasingam |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0820348147 |
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil movement was being crushed by the Sri Lankan armed forces and revises currently accepted analytical frameworks relating to diasporic communities. This book adds to our understanding of a particular diasporic group, while contributing to the theoretical literature in the area. Throughout, Amarasingam argues that transnational diasporic mobilization is at times determined and driven as much by internal organizational and communal developments as by events in their countries of origin, a phenomenon that has received relatively little attention in the scholarly literature. His work provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which a separatist sociopolitical movement beginning in Sri Lanka is carried forward, altered, and adapted by the diaspora and the struggles that are involved in this process.
National Identity and Geopolitical Visions
Title | National Identity and Geopolitical Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Gertjan Dijink |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2002-11-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1134771290 |
From the Third Reich to Bosnia, nationalism - a sense of a nation's place in the world - has been responsible for much bloodshed. Nationalism may be manipulated by political leaders or governments but it springs from the people. Something in the history and environment of a national group creates it. This volume aims to locate and analyze the myth of national identity and its value in creating pride, deflecting fear or legitimating aggression. A range of essays - on Britain, the United States, Germany, Russia, Iraq, Serbia, Argentina, Australia, and India - illustrate the different manifestations of the geographical imagination across the countries of the world.
We're Still Here
Title | We're Still Here PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer M. Silva |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190888040 |
Jennifer M. Silva tellas a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the erosion of the American Dream is lived and felt.
Brave Hearts: Extraordinary Stories of Pride, Pain, and Courage
Title | Brave Hearts: Extraordinary Stories of Pride, Pain, and Courage PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cynthia Brown |
Pages | 395 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0578066343 |
Pride and Solace
Title | Pride and Solace PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Jacobson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2022-03-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0520304942 |
In Pride and Solace, Norman Jacobson presents a novel perspective on the history of politcal theory. He sees an implicit conspiracy between political thinkers and their audience, in which theory feeds the common longing for solace, while the conversion of the audience to the thinker’s truth gratifies a craving for immortality, the thinker’s pride. In each age since the birth of the modern state, political theorists have found new forms of solace to meet the needs and character of their times. Machiavelli offers his Prince, the political warrior and national savior. Hobbes combats people’s fears of their innate disorderly passions with great artificial systems of law and science. And to give people all the the advantages of both the state of nature and civilized life, Rousseau fashions the social contract as the new basis of human political community. Despite attempts to develop a political theory without solace by such writers as Orwell, Arendt, and Camus, theorists still flourish who profess a dogmatic faith in history or in revolution, in Western technological superiority or Third World righteousness, and who condone torture and casual murder to attain ends seen as just, honorable, or foreordained. Jacobson’s book wages an intellectual struggle on two fronts: against the prideful offer of salvation by political means, and against the stoical rejection of solace in any form whatever. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports
Title | Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Zirin |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Hosting of sporting events |
ISBN | 1931859418 |
Zirin widens his remit to take a hard look at the trends now shaping sports in the United States and abroad, including an analysis of the 2006 World Cup.