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"This volume offers a feminist critique of counter- and deradicalization programmes, including those collected under the umbrella of 'preventing and countering violent extremis'. Based on insights from five countries, and examples from elsewhere, the book shows how collectively efforts rely on particular narratives of agency, security and human rights. Putting gender at the centre of analysis reveals a series of significant limitations in anti-radicalisation work, in construction, operation, and evaluation. First, these programmes fail to explore or engage with how masculinity and femininity inform the radicalisation process. As a result, they cannot successfully understand the personal drivers or the socio-political environment of these programmes. Second, within the operations of these programmes it becomes clear that male radicalisation is unreflectively linked to an excessive but flawed masculinity, whilst ideas about women's radicalisation depend on orientalist stereotypes about passivity and subjugation. Solutions for male deradicalisation therefore hinge on particular ideals of masculinity that few men can obtain, and deradicalising women is seen as a rescue mission. Third, the impact of these programmes derives from a racialized paternalist logic that justifies intervention in 'ordinary lives' in the name of security, yet fails to deliver. There is a gendered differential in the impact of counter-radicalisation measures. Although the rhetoric of countering terrorism is often couched in a narrative of 'women's rights' and 'liberal values', the book demonstrates the consequences are often detrimental to these precepts. The book concludes by offering an alternative way of thinking about and implementing anti-radicalisation efforts, rooted in a feminist peace"--
Terrorists --- Radicalism --- Violence in men --- Violence in women --- Deprogramming --- Terrorism
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Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s ordeal after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this family of one hundred fifty members lived in the bayou communities of St. Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans. Rooted there like the wild red iris of the coastal wetlands, the family had gathered for generations to cook and share homemade seafood meals, savor conversation, and refresh their interconnected lives. In this lively narrative, Katherine Browne weaves together voices and experiences from eight years of post-Katrina research. Her story documents the heartbreaking struggles to remake life after everyone in the family faced ruin. Cast against a recovery landscape managed by outsiders, the efforts of family members to help themselves could get no traction; outsiders undermined any sense of their control over the process. In the end, the insights of the story offer hope. Written for a broad audience and supported by an array of photographs and graphics, Standing in the Need offers readers an inside view of life at its most vulnerable.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 --- Disaster victims --- Refugees --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions.
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This book examines the religious, mythological and performance elements of the traditional Afro-Caribbean street festival. Using the theories of performance, political economy and symbolic analysis, this work elucidates how elements of African, European and South American cultures interact to produce a unique understanding of the colonial and post-colonial experience.
Christmas -- Saint Lucia. --- Devil -- Folklore. --- Devil -- Social aspects -- Saint Lucia. --- Festivals -- Saint Lucia. --- Saint Lucia -- Social life and customs. --- Christmas --- Festivals --- Devil --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Beelzebub --- Beelzebul --- Lucifer --- Satan --- Satanael --- Satanail --- Demonology --- Days --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Christmas books --- X-mas --- Xmas --- XPmas --- Xtemass --- Church year --- Holidays --- Social aspects --- Saint Lucia --- Social life and customs. --- Hagia Loukia --- ISenti-Lushiya --- Lùsíà Mímọ́ --- Masina Lucie --- Mutagatifu Lusiya --- Naomh Lùisia --- Noo Lucia --- Saint Lusia --- Sainte-Lucie --- San Lucia --- Sancta Lucia --- Sankta Lucio --- Sankte Lusia --- Sankti Lúsía --- Sanlusiyän --- Sant Lucia --- Sanṭ Lusiyah --- Sanṭ Lusyah --- Sant Lwsia --- Santa Lucia --- Santa-Lucie --- Santa Luċija --- Santa Lúsia --- Santa Lusiya --- Santa Lussìa --- Santa Luzia --- Santez-Lusia --- Saunt Lucia --- Seenti Luushiyaa --- Seĭnt Lusii︠a︡ --- Sen Lusia --- Sèng Lucia --- Senlu̇u̇sin Orn --- Sent Lisi --- Sent Liusėjė --- Sent-Li︠u︡si --- Sent-Li︠u︡sie --- Sent-Li︠u︡sii︠a︡ --- Sent-Lucio --- Sent Lüsii --- Sent Lusii︠a︡ --- Sent Lusija --- Sent-Lüsiya --- Senti-Lushiya --- Sentlūsija --- Sentorushia --- Sfânta Lucia --- Shën Luçia --- Sheng Luxiya --- Sint-Lusia --- St. Lucia --- St. Lusia --- Svätá Lucia --- Svatá Lucie --- Sveta Lucija --- Αγία Λουκία --- Света Луција --- Сент Лусия --- Сент-Люси --- Сент-Люсия --- Сент-Люсие --- Сент-Люсія --- Сейнт Лусия --- סנט לוסיה --- セントルシア --- 圣卢西亚 --- West Indies (Federation) --- Windward Islands (Jurisdiction)
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What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off the books in Martinique today. Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered by the "essential tensions" of maintaining French and Creole identities, the practice of creole economics provides both assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned and French. This powerful ethnographic study shows how local economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and cultural influences.
Informal sector (Economics) --- Women --- Economic conditions. --- Martinique --- Economic conditions --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Hidden economy --- Parallel economy --- Second economy --- Shadow economy --- Subterranean economy --- Underground economy --- Artisans --- Economics --- Small business
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Economic anthropology --- Economics --- Moral and ethical aspects
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