Tag: Belonging

Free Download Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging (Audiobook)
English | March 26, 2024 | ASIN: B0C7D36SDM | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 53m | 221 MB
Author: M.G. Vassanji | Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja
From one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world.
Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract "nowhere," then, is the true home.

Free Download Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7Y79BFL | 2024 | 5 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Jessica J. Lee
Narrator: Jessica J. Lee
The prize-winning and bestselling author turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future. A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? The themes in these fourteen essays become invigorating and intimate in Lee’s hands, centering on the lives of plants like seaweed, tangelos, and soy, and their entanglement with our human worlds. Lee explores the rich backstory of cherry trees in Berlin; a tea plant that grows in the Himalayan foothills just southwest of China; the world of algae and wakame, and the journeys they’ve made to reach us. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"-weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Lee looks at these plant species in their own context, even when we find them outside of it. Dispersals draws a gorgeous, sprawling map of the diaspora of flora. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.

Free Download Zeina Sleiman-Long, "Sanctuary Regions and the Struggle for Belonging: Undocumented Immigrants in the United States"
English | 2020 | pages: 143 | ISBN: 3030448878, 3030448843 | PDF | 1,5 mb
This book argues that local governments and institutions across the state of California that offer various forms of sanctuaries to undocumented immigrants create "sanctuary regions." These regions are safe zones for undocumented immigrants and facilitate their ability to make claims for human rights. The book also argues that these regions create an important form of resistance to federal state authority in terms of immigration and the management of borders – something that is typically attributed to state power in the study of International Relations (IR). This book includes overviews of how undocumented immigrants make claims for human rights as well as the ways in which sanctuary regions facilitate "acts of citizenship" and resist anti-immigrant policies.

Free Download Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
by john a. powell and Stephen Menendian
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1503638847 | 444 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Free Download john a. powell, "Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World"
English | ISBN: 1503638847 | 2024 | 448 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging

Free Download A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB72LDMV | 2024 | 7 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Lauren Markham
Narrator: Gilli Messer

Free Download Abigail Gardner, "Listening, Belonging, and Memory"
English | ISBN: 1501376802 | 2023 | 190 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples from digital storytelling, listening projects, and critical media analysis to highlight connections between listening and power. It centers on voices, stories, and silence, how they interweave, and are activated, maneuvered, reconfigured, and denied. It focuses on the small, microengagements that crouch within the superstructures of violent border control and the censorious policing of sonic citizenry, identifying cracks in the reshuffling of histories and hierarchies that connected listening affords.

Free Download Rahul Gairola, "Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783489723, 1783489731 | PDF | pages: 273 | 1.9 mb
Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It critically engages with Foucault’s notions of "biopolitics" and "governmentality" as a conjoined technology of governance in the era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the global economy from the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in the UK and USA whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class, and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, comparative literature, Race and Ethnicity studies, and Queer studies.

Free Download Rene Provost, "Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging: Religion and Multiculturalism from Israel to Canada "
English | ISBN: 0199383006 | 2014 | 340 pages | PDF | 22 MB
For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition. More recently however, religion has re-emerged as one of the central challenges facing Western liberal societies’ conception of multiculturalism. Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging explores the complex relationship between religion and multiculturalism and the role of the state and law in the creation of boundaries.

Free Download Andre Goodrich, "Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
English | ISBN: 0739188585 | 2015 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1002 KB