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Violent Ecotropes: Petroculture in the Niger DeltaPhilip Aghoghovwia Environmental devastation. Local militancy. Smuggling. Violence. All of these describe the Niger Delta, the crude-oil extraction center of Nigeria. Philip Aghoghovwia offers a unique interpretation of the region's petroviolence, examining the cultural aspects of the extraction industry in the societies within which it operates.
As he considers the charged and often clashing contexts of the More > | |
Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film—Past and Present, revised editionEric A. Goldman From the early Yiddish silent movies, to the innovative Soviet-supported productions of the 1920s, to the Golden Age of the 1930s, to the present revival of the genre, Eric Goldman traces the history of Yiddish cinema and the people who shaped its development.
Goldman viewed scores of films (some of them considered lost) and combed archives in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the United More > | |
Voices From Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995, 2nd EditionJean Davison To update this rich, informative collection of life histories, Davison returned to Mutira in 1989, 1992, and 1994, documenting the changes occurring since her 1984 study. Six of the seven life histories in the first edition have been expanded to reflect the events of the last decade. Two new introductory chapters frame the life histories within the context both of the significant macrolevel More > | |
Voices from the AmazonBinka Le Breton Through jungle and razed landscapes, Binka Le Breton journeyed more than 3,000 miles by bus, truck, boat, and on foot to record the candid words of the people who make the Brazilian Amazon region their home. The compelling result, Voice of the Amazon, reveals the textures of daily life in the Amazon forest. More > | |
Voices of Change: Short Stories by Saudi Arabian Women Writersedited and translated by Abubaker Bagader, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff, and Deborah S. Akers Poignant and thought-provoking, this anthology offers a representative selection from the past three decades of works by the best-known women writers in Saudi Arabia. The authors’ stories of their patriarchal society afford rare insight into the traditional and changing roles, relationships, and expectations of modern Saudi women.
The editors provide an introductory essay on modern Saudi More > | |
Voices Revealed: Arab Women Novelists, 1898-2000Bouthaina Shaaban Spanning more than a century, this systematic study brings to the forefront a dazzling array of novels by Arab women writers.
Bouthaina Shaaban's analysis ranges from the work of Zaynab Fawwaz, published at the end of the nineteenth century, to that of Sahar Khalifah and Najwa Barakat, published at the cusp of the twenty-first. The novels discussed reflect not only specifically Arab More > | |
Voting and Democratic Citizenship in AfricaMichael Bratton, editor How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new forms of popular participation for citizenship and democracy? Drawing on a decade of research from the cross-national Afrobarometer project, the authors of this seminal collection explore the emerging role of mass politics in Africa's fledgling democracies. More > | |
Waging War with Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the AgesCharles A. Dainoff, Robert M. Farley, and Geoffrey F. Williams "The sinews of war," posited Cicero, "are infinite money." Can the same be said of security? Tackling this thought-provoking question, the authors of Waging War with Gold show how states across the centuries have weaponized the global finance domain—a constellation of economic, legal, and monetary relations—in order to exert influence and pursue national interests. More > | |
Waging War Without Warriors? The Changing Culture of Military ConflictChristopher Coker In the past, posits Christopher Coker, wars were all-encompassing; they were a test not only of individual bravery, but of an entire community's will to survive. In the West today, in contrast, wars are tools of foreign policy, not intrinsic to the values of a society—they are instrumental rather than existential. The clash between these two "cultures of war" can be seen More > | |
Waiting for Rain: Agriculture and Ecological Imbalance in Cape VerdeMark Langworthy and Timothy J. Finan This ethnographic study of Cape Verde tackles critical development issues: the struggle for self–sufficient food security, the tension between agricultural production and natural resource sustainability, and the appropriate role of government policy in food production and natural resource management.
Cape Verde has moved into an ecological imbalance between the sustainable production More > |