Francisco Martínez, "Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits "
English | ISBN: 135017307X | 2021 | 198 pages | PDF | 13 MB
How does peripherality challenge methodology and theory-making? This book examines how the peripheral can be incorporated into ethnographic research, and reflects on what it means to be on the periphery - ontologically and epistemologically. Starting from the premise that clarity and fixity as ideals of modernity prevent us from approaching that which cannot be easily captured and framed into scientific boundaries, the book argues for remaining on the boundary between the known and the unknown in order to surpass this ethnographic limit. Peripheral Methodologies shows that peripherality is not only to be seen as a marginal condition, but rather as a form of theory-making and practice that incorporates reflexivity and experimentation. Instead of domesticating the peripheral, the authors engage in (and insist on) practicing expertise in reverse, unlearning their tools in order to integrate the empirical and analytical otherwise.
On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages By Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio
2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 2503532160 | PDF | 11 MB
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Elizabeth Fenton, "Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel "
English | ISBN: 1479866369 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?
Kyriaki Topidi, "Normative Pluralism and Human Rights: Social Normativities in Conflict "
English | ISBN: 1138056596 | 2018 | 306 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The complex legal situations arising from the coexistence of international law, state law, and social and religious norms in different parts of the world often include scenarios of conflict between them. These conflicting norms issued from different categories of 'laws' result in difficulties in describing, identifying and analysing human rights in plural environments.
Isabelle Charleux, "Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 "
English | ISBN: 9004296018 | 2015 | 472 pages | PDF | 10 MB
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Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design by Damon Taylor
English | Sep 17, 2020 | ISBN: 1350088617 | 248 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used. If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this, confronting how designers are using feelings in what they make.
Michael Lowy, "Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0292723571, 0292718942 | 176 pages | PDF (conv) | 33.5 MB
An expanded edition of revered theorist Michael Löwy's Morning Star: Marxism and Surrealism (previously published in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Greek), this masterwork collects the author's essays on the ways in which surrealism intersected with a variety of revolutionary political approaches, ranging from utopian ideals to Marxism and situationism. Taking its title from André Breton's essay "Arcane 17," which casts the star as the searing firebrand of rebellion, Löwy's provocative work spans many perspectives. These include surrealist artists who were deeply interested in Marxism and anarchism (Breton among them), as well as Marxists who were deeply interested in surrealism (Walter Benjamin in particular). Probing the dialectics of innovation, diversity, continuity, and unity throughout surrealism's international presence, Morning Star also incorporates analyses of Claude Cahun, Guy Debord, Pierre Naville, José Carlos Mariátegui and others, accompanied by numerous reproductions of surrealist art. An extraordinarily rich collection, Morning Star promises to ignite new dialogues regarding the very nature of dissent.
Modern Philosophy By Roger Ariew; Eric Watkins
2009 | 405 Pages | ISBN: 0872209792 | PDF | 5 MB
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Missing: A World War II Story of Love, Friendships, Courage, and Survival by Kenneth D. Evans
English | October 27th, 2020 | ISBN: 1732370230, 1732370206 | 518 pages | True EPUB | 18.42 MB
Don was an all-American boy who went to war for his country...
Mine Warfare: 1st Australian Task Force's struggle for South Vietnam by Andrew Ross
English | July 28th, 2021 | ISBN: 1922488267 | 170 pages | True EPUB | 4.20 MB
Mine warfare, in its various forms, is a favoured weapon used by insurgents against government forces. By June 1966, when the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) arrived in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam forces were well entrenched in the province and used mines extensively. The mine campaign risked few enemy lives and was a powerful statement to everyone, including civilians, that the Viet Cong were still in the war and not a spent force.