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      • Hotel de las Ideas

        Hotel de las ideas is a cooperative, with 10 co-founders.

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      • Borobudur Agency

        Borobudur Agency act to represent Indonesian publishers and authors for children’s and young adult books; picture books; comic books; fiction: novels, literary works; non-fiction: cookbooks, fashion (especially Muslim wear for women), social studies, Indonesian arts and culture, as well as interactive digital textbooks and software. We facilitate members of IKAPI, book publishers who assign the agency to promote their rights for overseas licensing, and accordingly promote the works of Indonesian authors for international readership.

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        Identité Empruntée

        by Hadassa Ashdot

        Identité Empruntée   Un roman dramatique par Hadassa Ashdot Identité Empruntée est un roman émouvant contant l'histoire de trois générations d'hommes et de femmes. A travers les yeux et les histoires de chacun, une froide intrigue se déroule à différentes périodes, en Israël et hors de ce pays.   Mais quelle en est l'histoire ? Celle d'une héroïne israélienne, un agent secret sous couverture diplomatique dont la vie balance entre une « opération confidentielle » et une autre, prête à toute mission, toujours « au nom de », toujours pour la cause ? Ou bien est-ce celle de la femme, celle qui a donné la vie, celle qui vit dans l'ombre de ses hommes : père, mari, fils, amis, amants ?   Le jour de la commémoration de la mort de son fils Uri, un pilote de chasse qui perdit la vie dans l'une des nombreuses batailles d'Israël, Marit, restée seule après le départ des invités, dresse l'inventaire de sa vie et des siens : Hanoch, son mari officier dans les renseignements, incapable de faire face à la disparition de son fils, qui l'a quittée ; et Uri, son fils décédé, qui fut allongé et ligoté sur l'autel du sacrifice, comme les pères israéliens, inspirés par le sens de la mission et de l'héroïsme, sacrifient leurs fils pour leur terre.   A travers les expériences personnelles de Marit avec la mort et l'affliction et à travers la rencontre collective, elle transmet une réalité israélienne noire, héroïque de l'amour et de la mort – Eros et Thanatos.   C'est l'histoire de l'amour : l'amour passionné entre un homme et une femme ; l'amour d'un pays pour lequel on meurt ; l'amour affectueux des parents pour leur fils, qui entraîne sa mort – et la leur aussi. C'est aussi l'histoire de la mort, et de l'échec d'un amour désespéré. Psychologue et conférencière universitaire, Hadassa Ashdot née à Tel-Aviv a grandi à Jérusalem. Ses histoires courtes ont été éditées dans deux grands magazines littéraires israéliens, Moznayim et Prosa. L'auteur a publié deux romans (en hébreu) : Identité Empruntée et Marianne de la Neige. L'expérience de l'auteur comme psychologue de l'armée habituée à gérer les afflictions causées par l'armée et les problèmes associés aux chocs post-traumatiques sont clairement mises en reflet dans ses œuvres de fiction.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2012

        Mirrors of Identity. Studies in the History of Concepts and Ideas in Ukraine (16th through the Early 18th Century)

        by Natalia Yakovenko

        A book by a prominent Ukrainian historian, professor of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Natalia Yakovenko includes selected articles on identity formation, worldview, the concept of “correct” power and duty of the nobility in early modern Ukraine

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        September 2022

        Identity or Not?

        by Jean-Pierre Wils (ed.)

        Questions of identity trigger controversial and highly emotional discussions in the political and social debate. The positions range from radically emancipatory perspectives to authoritarian and restorative efforts on the far right wing of politics. Liberal democracies are now opening up – slowly – as identity- and gender-sensitive forums. Opposite them are the 'new ethics' of illiberal democracies and totalitarian states that are aimed at ethnic homogeneity and gender uniformity. But that's not to say that there is unity in the liberal settings on the necessary degree of identity politics. Both language and gender politics are deeply controversial. Do we need an 'identity' and, if so, which one or how many? Can the identity debate be extended by means of other concepts?

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        Medicine
        April 2021

        Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages

        From England to the Mediterranean

        by Elma Brenner, François-Olivier Touati

        For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe. The chapters, including contributions by leading voices such as Luke Demaitre, Carole Rawcliffe and Charlotte Roberts, challenge the view that people with leprosy were uniformly excluded and stigmatised. Instead, they reveal the complexity of responses to this disease and the fine line between segregation and integration. Ranging across disciplines, from history to bioarchaeology, Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages encompasses post-medieval perspectives as well as the attitudes and responses of contemporaries. Subjects include hospital care, diet, sanctity, miraculous healing, diagnosis, iconography and public health regulation. This richly illustrated collection presents previously unpublished archival and material sources from England to the Mediterranean.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2024

        Borrowed objects and the art of poetry

        Spolia in Old English verse

        by Denis Ferhatovic

        This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection. Old English poetry famously lacks an explicit ars poetica. This book argues that attention to particularly charged moments within texts - especially those concerned with translation, transformation and the layering of various pasts - yields a previously unrecognised means for theorising Anglo-Saxon poetic creativity. Borrowed objects and the art of poetry works at the intersections of materiality and poetics, balancing insights from thing theory and related approaches with close readings of passages from Old English texts.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Insanity, identity and empire

        Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

        by Catharine Coleborne

        Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2022

        Civic identity and public space

        Belfast since 1780

        by Dominic Bryan, Sean J. Connolly, John Nagle

        Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth century of the concept of public space and the development of new strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a strategy for the management of public space in a divided city, while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        Pilgrims: Values And Identities

        by Darius Liutikas, Ali Thompson, María Ángeles Piñeiro Antelo, Pedro Azevedo, Derek Dalton, Luciana Thais Villa Gonzalez, Rubén C. Lois-González, Luis Alfonso Escudero Gómez, Rami K Isaac, Elyor E. Karimov, Kumi Kato, Darius Liutikas, Lucrezia Lopez, Dane Munro, Daniel H Olsen, Josephine Pryce, Ricardo Nicolas Progano, Xerardo Pereiro, Kip Redick, Larry Russell, Pravin S. Rana, Rana P. B. Singh, Xosé M. Santos, Augusta X. Thomson, Dallen J Timothy, Slawoj Tanas, Shin Yasuda

        Values-rich journeys can be described as pilgrimage, spiritual travel, personal heritage tourism, holistic tourism, and valuistic journeys. There are many motivations for undertaking values-rich journeys; the most important including personal values, personal and social identity, life experience, lifestyle, social and cultural influence. The main types of pilgrim journeys are traditional religious or spiritual journeys as well as secular journeys related with the expression of national, communal or personal identity, e.g. the journeys of sport and music fans. The manifestation of personal and social identity has different forms and rituals and constitutes different models of a specific behaviour. The journeys are often embraced as potential instruments for life altering experiences. This book presents contributions that address pilgrim motivation, identity and values as they are shaped by the broader sociological, psychological, cultural and environmental perspectives. With a focus on travellers themselves and their inner world through the lens of their pilgrimage. The research presented focuses on the typology of pilgrim journeys as ways in which identity and values are presented to a post-modern consumer society, providing interesting and challenging perspectives on the identity of pilgrims in the 21st century.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness

        by Dana Arnold

        Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of 'nation' against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addition to the field of postcolonial studies as it looks at how British identity creation affected those living in England - most study in this area has thus far focused on the effect of such identity creation upon the colonial subject. Broad appeal due to wide subject matter covered. Examines just how 'constructed' a national identity is - past and present.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2017

        Cultivating political and public identity

        by Rodney Barker

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2024

        Shakespeare's borrowed feathers

        How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer

        by Darren Freebury-Jones

        A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays. Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him? Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers a fresh look at William Shakespeare and the community of playwrights that shaped his work. This compelling book argues that we need to see early modern drama as a communal enterprise, with playwrights borrowing from and adapting one another's work. From John Lyly's wit to the collaborative genius of John Fletcher, to Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers fresh insights into Shakespeare's artistic development and shows us new ways of looking at the masterpieces that have enchanted audiences for centuries.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2020

        Bridges Instead of Walls, or What Unites Ukrainians?

        by Tetiana Teren

        In this collection of essays, twenty Ukrainian intellectuals reflect on the phenomenon of social bridges and walls. Why do they both exist? Do bridges always bring understanding? Or do they perhaps sometimes allow crossing boundaries? Do walls necessarily separate? Or do they occasionally protect? With whom and how should we build bridges, and from whom shall we isolate by walls? The result of the media project of the Ukrainian branch of the International PEN Club, published in the New Time publication, is now under one cover. On the pages of the book, you will find essays by the following authors: Kateryna Kalytko, Kateryna Botanova, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Zoya Kazanzhy, Ostap Slyvinskyi, Olena Stiazhkina, Larysa Denysenko, Myroslava Barchuk, Viktoriya Amelina, Vitaliy Ponomariov, Vasyl Makhno, Volodymyr Rafeenko, Mykola Riabchuk, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Svitlana Pyrkalo, Borys Gudziak, Ihor Isichenko, Halyna Vdovychenko, Pavlo Kazarin, Vitaliy Portnykov. Compiled by Tetiana Teren. Foreword by Andriy Kurkov.

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        Memoirs
        2021

        How the Cherry Orchard Was Cut Down, or the Long Road from Bad Ems

        by Oksana Zabuzhko

        This book commemorates Oksana Miyakovska-Radysh (1919–2020), a long-term archivist of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN) in New York. Her greatness lies in serving her cause with absolute freedom from complexes imposed by Russia and its culture. Reading this book is like flipping through an old family album in Miyakovska-Radysh's company. The book reveals numerous secrets. It turns out that Chekhov's Three Sisters were not just a figment of the writer's imagination. Moreover, Chekhov himself was a young man from then Ukrainian Taganrog, fond of his native Ukrainian language, theatre and one of the three sisters. The book also explores the connection between the "new woman" in Russian literature and the 19th-century Ukrainian women's movement and looks into the past mistakes that still have repercussions for Ukrainians today.

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        Geliehene Identität

        by Hadassa Ashdot

        Geliehene Identität - von Hadassa Ashdot Geliehene Identität spielt im heutigen Israel. Marit blickt am Todestag ihres Sohnes Uri, der sein Leben als Luftwaffenpilot in einem der vielen Konflikte Israels verloren hat, auf ihr Leben und die Menschen, die ihr etwas bedeutet haben, zurück. Da ist Hanoch, ihr Ehemann, ein hochdekorierter Geheimdienstoffizier, der den Tod seines Sohnes nicht verkraften konnte und sie deshalb verlassen hat. Dann Uri, ihr toter Sohn, dessen Tod ihr jetzt so wie der Tod der vielen anderen, von sendungsbewußten israelischen Vätern als Helden für das Vaterland geopferten Söhne erscheint. Angesichts ihrer unmittelbaren Begegnung mit dem Tod und dem Zerbrechen ihrer Liebe kommt eine dunkle, heroische und spezifisch israelische Wirklichkeit zu Tage, in der Liebe und Tod, Eros and Thanatos, sehr nahe beieinander liegen. Hadassa Ashdot erzählt von den unterschiedlichen Formen einer gescheiterten und verzweifelten Liebe aus der persönlichen Perspektive der Protagonisten - der leidenschaftlichen Liebe zwischen einer Frau und einem Mann, der Liebe zu einem Land, für das man sein Leben geben würde und schließlich der Elternliebe. Um wessen Geschichte handelt es sich dabei letztlich? Ist es die Geschichte eines israelischen Geheimdienstoffiziers, dessen Leben in den kurzen Pausen zwischen seinen Einsätzen im Untergrund vergiftet wird?  Oder ist es die Geschichte einer Frau, die lediglich als Lebensspenderin im Schatten ihrer Männer lebt – dem Vater, Ehemann, Sohn, Freund oder Liebhaber? Hadassa Ashdot ist Psychologin, wurde in Tel Aviv geboren und wuchs in Jerusalem auf. Ihre zahlreichen Kurzgeschichten sind in zwei führenden israelischen Literaturzeitschriften Moznayim und Prosa erschienen. Sie hat neben Geliehene Identität die Erzählung  Marianne und der Schnee (Tel Aviv, 2002) veröffentlicht. Die unmittelbaren Erfahrungen, die Sie als Militärpsychologin mit Soldaten während der militärischen Konflikte in ihrem Land gemacht hat, bilden einen wichtigen Hintergrund für ihr Werk. Rechte in deutscher und anderen Sprachen noch erhältlich!

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        Rural communities
        April 2006

        Development with Identity

        Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes

        by Edited by Robert E Rhoades

        Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address local priorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-based research on the interaction between environment and society that will have global relevance. This book reports on a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learnt to seek common ground. The book discusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to create contemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation to biodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development. This book will be of significant interest to sociologists, anthropologists, economists and sustainability scientists researching environment and agriculture in rural communities.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2021

        Crafting identities

        Artisan culture in London, c. 1550–1640

        by Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Christopher Breward, James Ryan

        Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual and political status of London's crafts and craftsmen were embedded in particular material and spatial contexts. Through examination of a wide range of manuscript, visual and material culture sources, the book investigates for the first time how London's artisans physically shaped the built environment of the city and how the experience of negotiating urban spaces impacted directly on their distinctive individual and collective identities. Applying an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology to the examination of artisanal cultures, the book engages with the fields of social and cultural history and the histories of art, design and architecture. It will appeal to scholars of early modern social, cultural and urban history, as well as those interested in design and architectural history.

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