"This book discusses cultural and societal issues including caste, gender, oppression, and social movements through cinema and particularly in specific language cinema and culture"--
Introduction: Engaging religion and reconstruction / Elias Kifon Bongmba -- Texts of affirmation rather than negation : Jesse N.K. Mugambi and African Biblical studies / Knut Holter -- The life of King David as a model of reconstruction / David Tuesday Adamo -- Worshipping God t…
"Religion has played a major role in both the division and unification of peoples and countries within Africa. Its capacity to cause, and to heal, societal rifts has been well documented. This book addresses this powerful societal force, and explores the implications of a theolo…
Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities. Public safety protections promote what T.H. Marshall called "social rights" of equitable citizenship. On the Frontlines of Welfare State shows how public safety agen…
Refugees in extended exile: living on the edge
by Hyndman, Jennifer, Giles, Wenona Mary
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"In 2015, Sina Habte's limp, pregnant body floated off the coast of Greece. Already past her due date when she boarded a flimsy boat to cross the Mediterranean Sea, Sina, wanted nothing more than to deliver her baby somewhere safe. A chemical engineer and citizen of the small Af…
This text concerns the advances made by social psychologists from America, Europe and Japan. It aims to contribute to the understanding and resolution of social dilemmas.
Seven ethnodramas illustrate this emerging genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the field of theatre production itself. With their focus on the personal, immediate and contextual, these plays about marginalized identities, abortion, street life and opp…
Ethnodrama uses the traditional craft and artistic techniques of theater to create a live performance portraying the experiences of research participants or a researcher's interpretation of data. It is considered here a mode for presenting the results of ethnographic research as…
