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Field: Caribbean history, culture, and politics

Impact-Echo: The Complete Story

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Mary Sansalone

Journal: ACI Structural JournalYear: 1997
Citations: 174

First Name is required invalid characters Last Name is required invalid characters Email Address is required Invalid Email Address Please select a country... Afghanistan Åland Islands Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua And Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Austra...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politics
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The world next door: South Asian American literature and the idea of America

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Journal: Choice Reviews OnlineYear: 2005Citations: 90

This book grows out of the question, \u0022At this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies, what insights can South Asian American writing offer us about living in the world?\u0022 South Asian American literature, with its focus on the multiple geographies and histories of ...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politics
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Concrete Over the Top--Or, is there Life After Peak?

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Shawn S. Smith, K J Willam, Kurt H. Gerstle, Stein Sture

Journal: ACI Materials JournalYear: 1989Citations: 87

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Physical SciencesEngineeringCivil and Structural Engineering
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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

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Birgit Meyer

Year: 2009Citations: 84

Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms and Styles of Binding B.Meyer PART I: BOUNDARY POLITICS 'Don't ask questions, just observe!': Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomble M.van de Port Purity and the Devil: Community, Media and the Bo...

Social SciencesArts and HumanitiesLiterature and Literary Theory
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IDENTITY, NATION AND RELIGION: EDUCATED YOUNG BANGLADESHI MUSLIMS IN LONDON'S `EAST END'

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John Eade

Journal: International SociologyYear: 1994Citations: 66

In this article I seek to analyse the diverse understandings among British Bengalis of their social identities as shaped by national and Muslim belongings. The complexity of these understandings is described as the young Bengalis explore the interrelationships between these identities, attempt to ra...

Social SciencesArts and HumanitiesVisual Arts and Performing Arts
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South Asians overseas: migration and ethnicity

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Journal: Choice Reviews OnlineYear: 1991Citations: 64

List of figures List of maps List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Introduction: themes in the study of the South Asian diaspora Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec Part I. South Asians in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts: Introduction Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec ...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politics
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Black and Ethnic Leaderships

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Pnina Werbner

Year: 2009Citations: 53

Part I: The Context of Leadership: Migration, Settlement, and Radical Discrimination Muhammad Anwar Part II: Black and Ethnic Leaderships in Britain: An Overview Pnina Werbner II Community, Party Politics, and the Black Experience Chapter 1: Ethnic Minorities: Voting, Representation, and electoral p...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politics
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Economic development : an anthropological approach

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Jeffrey H. Cohen, Norbert Dannhaeuser

Year: 2002Citations: 38

Chapter 1 Introduction: Development in Practice and Theory, a Positive Role for Anthropology Part 2 Part I: Development and Theory in Anthropology Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Involution and Modernization: The Case of Clifford Geertz Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Evolution of Market Niches among Oaxacan Wood Car...

Social SciencesSociology and Political ScienceGlobalization and Cultural Identity
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Interventions: feminist dialogues on Third World women's literature and film

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Journal: Choice Reviews OnlineYear: 1997Citations: 37

The Intervening Configuration: Gender and Feminist Practice: National Identities, Tradition, and Feminism: The Novels of Ama Ata Aidoo Read in the Context of the Works of Kwame Nkrumah, Nationalism and Feminism in the Writings of Santa Devi and Sita Devi, Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering ...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politics
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Women's Activism

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de Haan, F., Allen, M., Purvis, J., Daskalova, K.

Year: 2012Citations: 19

Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world to look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global f...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politics
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SHAKY GROUND AND NEW TERRITORIALITIES IN<i>BRICK LANE</i>BY MONICA ALI AND<i>THE NAMESAKE</i>BY JHUMPA LAHIRI

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Françoise Král

Journal: Journal of Postcolonial WritingYear: 2007Citations: 15

Abstract In this article I propose to analyse the way Brick Lane and The Namesake envisage the consequences of the new world geography on the psyche of migrants. Interestingly these two novels of the Indian diaspora envisage immigration as empowering, but they also pinpoint the difficulties of the i...

Social SciencesArts and HumanitiesLiterature and Literary Theory
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Restoring Paradise in the Caribbean: Combatting Violence with Numbers

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Heather Sutton, Lucciana Álvarez, Jan van Dijk, John van Kesteren et al.

Journal: Inter-American Development Bank eBooksYear: 2017Citations: 14

While citizen security has become an ever-increasing concern for many Caribbean countries, the magnitude of the problem has not been matched with an equally robust response in terms of research. This volume analyses new data collected in household and business victimization surveys. These surveys al...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politicsOpen Access
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Slavery, Colonialism and Museums Representations in Great Britain: Old and New Circuits of Migration

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Stephen Small

Journal: Human architectureYear: 2011Citations: 14

I. INTRODUCTION In the 1950s, a majority of white people in Britain had never seen a 'coloured colonial immigrant' in person. The Black (1) population was tiny in number, and concentrated in the historic port cities of Liverpool, Bristol, London and Cardiff (Rose, et al. 1969). But all that has chan...

Social SciencesCultural StudiesCaribbean history, culture, and politics
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Made in Bangladesh: The Romance of the New Woman

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Elora Halim Chowdhury

Year: 2018Citations: 10
Social SciencesAnthropologyAnthropological Studies and Insights
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Monsoon fever

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Pamila Gupta

Journal: Social DynamicsYear: 2012Citations: 9

Abstract The monsoon provides a useful spatial template for thinking more generally about the future direction(s) of Indian Ocean studies. Precisely because of its defining character – it connects water and sky, and links geography (specifically climate and climate change) with politics and developm...

Health SciencesMedicinePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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