These Islands Are Ours

These Islands Are Ours
Author: Alexander Bukh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1503611906

Territorial disputes are one of the main sources of tension in Northeast Asia. Escalation in such conflicts often stems from a widely shared public perception that the territory in question is of the utmost importance to the nation. While that's frequently not true in economic, military, or political terms, citizens' groups and other domestic actors throughout the region have mounted sustained campaigns to protect or recover disputed islands. Quite often, these campaigns have wide-ranging domestic and international consequences. Why and how do territorial disputes that at one point mattered little, become salient? Focusing on non-state actors rather than political elites, Alexander Bukh explains how and why apparently inconsequential territories become central to national discourse in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. These Islands Are Ours challenges the conventional wisdom that disputes-related campaigns originate in the desire to protect national territory and traces their roots to times of crisis in the respective societies. This book gives us a new way to understand the nature of territorial disputes and how they inform national identities by exploring the processes of their social construction, and amplification.

All That We Say Is Ours

All That We Say Is Ours
Author: Ian Gill
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1926812441

Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is the Galapagos of the north. Famous for their wild beauty, the islands are also the ancient homeland of the Haida Nation. Integral to Haida culture is the relationship to the land, and the Haidas have spent many years trying to protect and recover control of it. Under the leadership of Giindajin Haawasti Guujaaw, the visionary artist, drummer, and orator, the Haida blockaded loggers, joined forces with environmentalists, lobbied political leaders, and in 2004 filed suit against the Canadian government, laying claim to their entire traditional territory. Ian Gill captures the excitement of the Haida struggle and their passion for their culture. He also reveals the making of an artist and political activist: Guujaaw’s audacity, eloquence, tactical skills, and deep knowledge of his homeland place him at the heart of this riveting story, and this book reveals his extraordinary role in it.

Not Ours Alone

Not Ours Alone
Author: Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231132387

Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization. She analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, tradition, and community. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are inalienable possessions of a local collective passed down to subsequent generations, has shaped and sustained the cooperative's sense of identity.

Flora of the Galapagos Islands

Flora of the Galapagos Islands
Author: Ira Loren Wiggins
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 1054
Release: 1971
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780804707329

A Stanford University Press classic.

The World that was Ours

The World that was Ours
Author: Hilda Bernstein
Publisher: Persephone Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

An intimate memoir about the 1964 Rivonia Trial in South Africa during Apartheid.

The Aesthetics of Island Space

The Aesthetics of Island Space
Author: Johannes Riquet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019256854X

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works. The Aesthetics of Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in literary texts, from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, in the journals of explorers and scientists such as James Cook and Charles Darwin, and in Hollywood cinema. It traces the ways in which literary and cinematic islands have functioned as malleable spatial figures that offer vivid perceptual experiences as well as a geopoetic oscillation between the material energies of words and images and the energies of the physical world. The chapters focus on America's island gateways (Roanoke and Ellis Island), visions of tropical islands (Tahiti and imagined South Sea islands), the islands of the US-Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest, and the imaginative appeal of mutable islands. It argues that modern voyages of discovery posed considerable perceptual and cognitive challenges to the experience of space, and that these challenges were negotiated in complex and contradictory ways via poetic engagement with islands. Discussions of island narratives in postcolonial theory have broadened understanding of how islands have been imagined as geometrical abstractions, bounded spaces easily subjected to the colonial gaze. There is, however, a second story of islands in the Western imagination which runs parallel to this colonial story. In this alternative account, the modern experience of islands in the age of discovery went hand in hand with a disintegration of received models of understanding global space. Drawing on and rethinking (post-)phenomenological, geocritical, and geopoetic theories, The Aesthetics of Island Space argues that the modern experience of islands as mobile and shifting territories implied a dispersal, fragmentation, and diversification of spatial experience, and it explores how this disruption is registered and negotiated by both non-fictional and fictional responses.

Sea Is Ours

Sea Is Ours
Author: Jaymee Goh
Publisher: Rosarium Publishing
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2015-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1495607593

Steampunk takes on Southeast Asia in this anthology The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday. Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. Large fish lumber across the skies, while boat people find a new home on the edge of a different dimension. Technology and tradition meld as the people adapt to the changing forces of their world. The Sea Is Ours is an exciting new anthology that features stories infused with the spirits of Southeast Asia's diverse peoples, legends, and geography.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1422
Release: 1945
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Diary of Gideon Welles

Diary of Gideon Welles
Author: Gideon Welles
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2020-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 3846052655

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.