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Historiography of Genocide
AvAnton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Kriekenm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
1 255 kr
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The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.
Historiography of Genocide
AvRobert Hitchcock,John Dockerm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2008
1 666 kr
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The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.
Postmodernism and Popular Culture
A Cultural History
AvJohn Docker
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
522 kr
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In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers will visit the architecture of Le Corbusier, take a ride on the Sydney monorail, watch Prisoner (Cell Block H) on TV, come into contact with Derrida, read some crime fiction and enter into the world of carnival. The book engages, in a stimulating and illuminating way, with some of the most important academic debates of our time. It combines polemical force with intellectual rigour, reclaiming popular culture from the forces opposed to it. John Docker's personal style and accessible prose will introduce postmodernism to many interested general readers and students intimidated by other dense, theoretical tracts. The breadth and intelligence of his cultural history will make the book essential reading for scholars, in a range of disciplines, around the world.
Origins of Violence
Religion, History and Genocide
AvJohn Docker
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
288 kr
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Genocide is commonly understood to be a terrible aberration in human behaviour, performed by evil, murderous regimes such as the Nazis and dictators like Suharto and Pinochet. John Docker argues that the roots of genocide go far deeper into human nature than most people realise.Genocide features widely in the Bible, the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and debates about the Enlightenment. These texts are studied in depth to trace the origins of violence through time and across civilisations. Developing the groundbreaking work of Raphaël Lemkin, who invented the term 'genocide', Docker guides us from the dawn of agricultural society, through classical civilisation to the present, showing that violence between groups has been integral to all periods of history.This revealing book will be of great interest to those wishing to understand the roots of genocide and why it persists in the modern age.
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality
Global Perspectives
AvJohn Docker,Debjani Ganguly
E-bok
Engelska, 2008
576 kr
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This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to contemporary struggles to regain the â€˜humaneâ€™ in the midst of global conflict. The relevance of Gandhian notions of ahimsa and satyagraha is assessed in the context of contemporary events, when religious fundamentalisms of various kinds are competing with the arrogance and unilateralism of imperial capital to reduce the world to a state of international lawlessness.
Covering a wide and comprehensive range of topics such as Gandhiâ€™s vegetarianism and medical practice, his successes and failures as a litigator in South Africa, his experiments with communal living and his concepts of non-violence and satyagraha. The book combines historical, philosophical, and textual readings of different aspects of the leaderâ€™s life and works.
Rethinking Gandhi in a New World Order will be of interest to students and academics interested in peace and conflict studies, South Asian history, world history, postcolonial studies, and studies on Gandhi.
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality
Global Perspectives
AvJohn Docker,Debjani Ganguly
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2008
576 kr
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This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to contemporary struggles to regain the â€˜humaneâ€™ in the midst of global conflict. The relevance of Gandhian notions of ahimsa and satyagraha is assessed in the context of contemporary events, when religious fundamentalisms of various kinds are competing with the arrogance and unilateralism of imperial capital to reduce the world to a state of international lawlessness.
Covering a wide and comprehensive range of topics such as Gandhiâ€™s vegetarianism and medical practice, his successes and failures as a litigator in South Africa, his experiments with communal living and his concepts of non-violence and satyagraha. The book combines historical, philosophical, and textual readings of different aspects of the leaderâ€™s life and works.
Rethinking Gandhi in a New World Order will be of interest to students and academics interested in peace and conflict studies, South Asian history, world history, postcolonial studies, and studies on Gandhi.
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality
Global Perspectives
AvDebjani Ganguly,John Docker
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
491 kr
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This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to contemporary struggles to regain the ‘humane’ in the midst of global conflict. The relevance of Gandhian notions of ahimsa and satyagraha is assessed in the context of contemporary events, when religious fundamentalisms of various kinds are competing with the arrogance and unilateralism of imperial capital to reduce the world to a state of international lawlessness. Covering a wide and comprehensive range of topics such as Gandhi’s vegetarianism and medical practice, his successes and failures as a litigator in South Africa, his experiments with communal living and his concepts of non-violence and satyagraha. The book combines historical, philosophical, and textual readings of different aspects of the leader’s life and works. Rethinking Gandhi in a New World Order will be of interest to students and academics interested in peace and conflict studies, South Asian history, world history, postcolonial studies, and studies on Gandhi.
Historiography of Genocide
AvAnton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Kriekenm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
1 255 kr
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The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.
Is History Fiction?
AvAnn Curthoys,John Docker
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
307 kr
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An original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is - and might be - written. It traces history's divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides, right up to the key figures of historical reflection, such as Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Hayden White. It also explores the challenges posed by postmodernism, and the literary conventions of historical writing.
Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1
My Father, Ted Docker
AvJohn Docker
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
386 kr
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Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 2
My Mother, Elsie Levy
AvJohn Docker
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
530 kr
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Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3
I Am Born
AvJohn Docker
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
382 kr
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Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1
My Father, Ted Docker
AvJohn Docker
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
122 kr
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Ted Docker was an Australian of Irish descent who as a young man wanted to change the world, joining first the Industrial Workers of the World and then helping form the Communist Party of Australia. He was steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union and by historical record a stern hard-liner. This is not the whole story.
Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 2
My Mother, Elsie Levy
AvJohn Docker
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
127 kr
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Elsie Levy was born in the Jewish East End of London, came to Sydney with her family when she was 14, and joined the Communist Party of Australia when she was a young woman. In this book, her son explores her disaporic Jewish identity, both English and Australian, and in the process journeys into Jewish cultural histories. We meet important cultural figures such as Leonard Woolf, Freud, Schnitzler, Veza Canetti and Ida Rubinstein. This journey leads also to English anti-Semitism, including, shockingly, Bloomsbury. In turning to Communism and marrying out, Elsie Levy became one of history's undutiful daughters.
Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3
I Am Born
AvJohn Docker
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
126 kr
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John Docker grew up in Bondi, the son of Communist parents, his mother Jewish from the East End of London and his father of Irish descent. His Bondi is not the site of sunny mindlessness but rather a place of intense immigrant and political life. This book traces his often comic experiences at Bondi Wellington Primary School and Randwick Boys High School. At the University of Sydney from 1963, he became a teenage Leavisite and participated in the anarchistic New Left. With Ann Curthoys he travelled on the Hippie Trail through Asia to London, which became for both the scene of what Gorky referred to as the University of Life.
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality
Global Perspectives
AvDebjani Ganguly,John Docker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 591 kr
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This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to contemporary struggles to regain the ‘humane’ in the midst of global conflict. The relevance of Gandhian notions of ahimsa and satyagraha is assessed in the context of contemporary events, when religious fundamentalisms of various kinds are competing with the arrogance and unilateralism of imperial capital to reduce the world to a state of international lawlessness. Covering a wide and comprehensive range of topics such as Gandhi’s vegetarianism and medical practice, his successes and failures as a litigator in South Africa, his experiments with communal living and his concepts of non-violence and satyagraha. The book combines historical, philosophical, and textual readings of different aspects of the leader’s life and works. Rethinking Gandhi in a New World Order will be of interest to students and academics interested in peace and conflict studies, South Asian history, world history, postcolonial studies, and studies on Gandhi.

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John Docker – författare

Historiography of Genocide

Historiography of Genocide

Postmodernism and Popular Culture

Origins of Violence

Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality

Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality

Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality

Historiography of Genocide

Is History Fiction?

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 2

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 2

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 3

Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality

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