| First Semester 2022-2023 |
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Intimate reflections: the art of Vera Tamari
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Johnson, Penny [Editor] Vitullo, Anita [Editor] |
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| Call Number | N7279.T35I585 2021 | |
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The Art of Vera Tamari is a signal witness to an important artist and to the Palestinian art movement. Through the incisive essays of the writers and in the reproduced images of Vera’s own work, this book provides a new epistemological perspective on how art history is written by questioning the traditional paradigm of art objects as being the material history that narrates the story of art.
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Democratisation against democracy: how EU foreign policy fails the Middle East.
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Teti, Andrea [Joint Author]
Abbott, Pamela [Joint Author] Talbot, Valeria [Joint Author] Maggiolini, Paolo, 1981- [Joint Author] |
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| Call Number | JQ1758.A91D466 2020 | |
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This book explains why the EU is not a 'normative actor' in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy promotion fails. Drawing on a combination of discourse analysis of EU policy documents and evidence from opinion polls showing 'what the people want', the book shows EU policy fails because the EU promotes a conception of democracy which people do not share. Likewise, the EU's strategies for economic development are misconceived because they do not reflect the people's preferences for greater social justice and reducing inequalities. This double failure highlights a paradox of EU democracy promotion: while nominally emancipatory, it de facto undermines the very transitions to democracy and inclusive development it aims to pursue.
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| Title |
Arab Spring: modernity, identity and change
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Mohamed, Eid [Editor]
Fahmy, Dalia F [Editor] |
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| Call Number | JQ1850.A91A739 2020 | |
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This book provides systematic, integrated analyses of emergent social and cultural dynamics in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, and looks closely at the narratives and experiences of a people as they confront crisis during a critical moment of transition. Providing an interdisciplinary approach to interconnections across regional and communal boundaries, this volume situates itself at the intersection of political science, cultural studies, media and film studies, and Middle Eastern studies, while offering some key critical revisions to dominant approaches in social and political theory. Through the unique contributions of each of its authors, this book will offer a much-needed addition to the study of Middle East politics and the Arab Spring. Moreover, although its specific focus is on the Arab context, its analysis will be of issues of significant relevance to a changing world order.
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Home: ethnographic encounters
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Lenhard, Johannes [Editor]
Samanani, Farhan [Editor] |
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| Call Number | GN414.H66 2020 | |
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The book explores how researchers and informants alike are always involved in the process of making and unmaking home, and challenges readers to reimagine ethnographic practice in terms of active, morally complex process of home-making. Contributions reach across the globe and across social contexts, and the book includes chapters on council housing and middle-class apartment buildings, homelessness and migration, problems with accessing the field as well as limiting it, physical as well as sentimental notions of home, and objects as well as inter-human social relations. Home draws attention to processes of sociality that normally remain analytically invisible, and contributes to a growing and rich field of study on the anthropology of home.
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