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Nightwood Theatre A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
In Nightwood Theatre, Scott describes the company’s journey toward defining itself as a feminist theatre establishment, highlighting its artistic leadership based on its relevance to diverse communities of women. She also traces Nightwood’s relationship with the media and places the theatre in an international context by comparing its history to that of like companies in the U.K. and the U.S.
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- 9781897425558.01
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- Canadian Plays
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- 344 pages
Disability Studies Educating for Inclusion
Education systems worldwide will only successfully serve the needs of people with disability when we inclusively examine and address disabling issues that currently exist at school level education as well as further and higher education and beyond. The chapters contributing to this edited volume are presented to assist readers with a critical examination of contemporary practice and offer a con…
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- 9789463001991
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- viii, 278 pages
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- 362.4
Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
This book shows how Chinese officials have responded to popular and international pressure, while at the same time seeking to preserve their own careers, in the context of disaster management. Using the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as a case study, it illustrates how authoritarian regimes are creating new governance mechanisms in response to the changing global environment and what challenges they …
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- 9783662445167
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- xvii, 126 pages
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- 363.348
Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience
The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain. The contributions to this book focus on resilience thinking along 4 broad themes: Urban Domain; Cyber Domain; Organizational/Social domain; and Socio-ecological domain. This book would serve as a valuable reference for courses o…
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- 9783319088198
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- xvi, 338 pages
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- 363.348
On Othering Processes and Politics of Unpeace
In every sphere of life, division and intolerance have polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is deemed acceptable—has fractured humanity, creating divisions that seemingly defy reconciliation. How do we restore the bonds of connection among human beings? How do we shift from pola…
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- 9781771993876
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- Global Peace Studies
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- 6 x 9, 360 pages
How to Read Like You Mean It
In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don’t understand, we must embrace confusion as a constitutive part of understanding and meaningful exchange, whether between a reader and a tex…
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- 9781771993753
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- Cultural Dialectics
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- 6 x 9, 184 pages
Plastic Legacies Pollution, Persistence, and Politics
The complexities surrounding the global plastic crisis require an interdisciplinary approach and the materialities of plastic demand new temporalities of thought and action. Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological chal…
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- 9781771993272.01
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- 6 x 9, 288 pages
Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape
With passion and conviction, Johnson maintains that our response to our environment shapes our culture, determines our lifestyle, defines our identity, and sets the tone for our relationships and economies. With photos, she documents the landscape and contrasts the ecological relationships with land of First Nations peoples to those of non-indigenous scientists. The result is an absorbing study…
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- 9781897425350.01
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- 267 pages
Northern Love An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity
In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes proposes a conception of love suggestive of a distinctive model of Canadian masclinity. He pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in relation to two representative male characters in novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creek).
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- 9781897425220.01
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- Cultural Dialectics
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- 145 pages
Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia A Natio…
This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary Australian FtM transgender people. Following an overview of current literature on the various aspects of and approaches to trans…
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- 978-3-319-13829-9
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- XIX, 154
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