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"Aisha" ist das erste Künstlerbuch Yumna Al-Arashis, einer jemenitisch-ägyptischen, in Amerika geborenen Fotografin und Filmemacherin. Dieses kraftvoll-sensible, von Arashis Urgrossmutter Aisha inspirierte Werk ist ihren weiblichen Vorfahren gewidmet, Frauen, die aus der vielschichtigen und vielseitigen SWANA Region stammen. Al-Arashi, die die Bedeutungen der Tätowierungen zu ergründen versucht, die den Körper ihrer Urgrossmutter bedeckten, taucht in die Komplexitäten einer symbolischen, matriarchalischen Tradition ein. Da sie in dem von Bürgerkriegen heimgesuchten Jemen keinen der Orte besuchen konnte, in denen ihre Familie gelebt hatte, bereiste Yumna Nordafrika, wo sie einer Gruppe von Frauen ihrer Generation begegnete: Alle sitzen und stehen, gestikulieren und lachen. Und alle strahlen eine grosse Selbstsicherheit und Lebensfreude aus. Al-Arashis Bilder sind behutsam, doch streng strukturiert, Strukturen, die die Frauen bewusst mit ihrer Umgebung verbinden und vice versa. Bunte Bilder voller Details, intim und provozierend, Bilder, die Verbundenheit und Zusammehalt ausstrahlen. In Texten und Gedichten reflektiert Al-Arashi ihre Erinnerungen an ihre Urgrossmutter und den Duft von Oud, das «eine magische Spur hinterliess, wo auch immer sie sich in ihrem Haus bewegte». In ihren genreübergreifenden Texten spricht Al-Arashi über koloniale Archive generationsübergreifendes Erzählen und die Komplexitäten einer transnationalen, weiblichen arabischen Identität in patriarchalischen, kapitalistischen und imperialistischen Gesellschaften.

Updated to include the latest research in the hazards and disasters field, U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century continues the tradition of giving readers access to exemplary case studies drawn from a wide variety of hazards as well as academic and applied fields.

This unique volume brings together academics of Russian journalism and media with journalists and editors who reported or continue to report on the country, to explore and reflect on the changing landscape for journalists in Russia or covering Russia, and the increasing control exerted by the government on independent journalists.

This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia.

Authoritarianism in All its Guises provides an interdisciplinary assessment of contemporary experiences of authoritarianism.

This volume interrogates global perspectives and issues that constitute and characterize survivor-centred justice, exploring both conceptual and theoretical issues surrounding the definition of a 'survivor', practical considerations of what constitutes a survivor-centred approach to justice.

"With forty percent of the world's population, twenty-five percent of global GDP and large troves of personal data, BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) play an increasingly important role in global digital development and policymaking. This is the first book exploring digital sovereignty from a Global South perspective"--

In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nations possess vast troves of personal data. Yet, their conceptions, narratives, and initiatives of digital sovereignty remain understudied. This volume is the first to explore digital sovereignty from a Global South perspective and offers a forward-looking take on what a world less dependent on Silicon Valley might look like. It brings together excellent analyses of BRICS digital sovereignty issues, from historical imaginaries to up-to-date conceptualizations, e-payment to smart cities, legal analysis to geopolitical assessment. By offering neglected perspectives from the Global South, this book makes important contributions to the digital sovereignty debate. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.How can we make sense of what Einstein called 'the dark places of human will and feeling'? Richard Overy draws on a lifetime's study of conflict to write this challenging, invaluable book. Studying every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, Overy allows readers to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option.Repeatedly humans have foresworn war, have understood its appalling risks and have wished to create more pacific, productive societies. And yet almost inevitably circumstances emerge under which war once more seems inevitable or even desirable.

Despite untold human suffering, widespread destruction, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn. How can we explain costly and stalemated, yet seemingly endless, conflicts? Wars Without End provides an answer. Bringing together battlefield bargaining dynamics, the escalatory pressures of interstate competition, and the systemic dimensions of geopolitical rivalry in civil wars, the book challenges traditional conceptions of "proxy war" by deriving new propositions about the strategic logics that motivate it. Combining statistics with detailed case studies, it explains how protracted fighting within states is linked to enduring competition between them.