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Reclaiming Culture

2005-10-20 Social Science
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Release : 2005-10-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reclaiming Culture by : J. Hendry

Download or read book Reclaiming Culture written by J. Hendry. This book was released on 2005-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the renewal (or rekindling) of cultural identity, especially in populations previously considered 'extinct'. At the same time, Hendry sets out to explain the importance of ensuring the survival of these cultures. By drawing a fine and textured picture of these cultures, Hendry illuminates extraordinary diversity that was, at one point, seriously endangered, and explains why it should matter in today's world.

Reclaiming San Francisco

1998 History
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Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 354/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reclaiming San Francisco by : James Brook

Download or read book Reclaiming San Francisco written by James Brook. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control." The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgotten, and they are told here: stories of immigrants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists-along with the stories of speculators, land-grabbers, and the land itself that need to be told differently. Contributors include historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, and an anthropologist. Passionate about the city, they want San Francisco to be more itself and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property that appears to be its immediate fate. San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy. But San Franciscans are unusual in their readiness to confront the corporate agenda for their city.

Reclaiming Community

2019-05-28 Social Science
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Release : 2019-05-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 909/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reclaiming Community by : Bianca J. Baldridge

Download or read book Reclaiming Community written by Bianca J. Baldridge. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, Baldridge persuasively argues that the story of EE is representative of a much larger and understudied phenomenon. With the spread of neoliberal ideology and its reliance on racism—marked by individualism, market competition, and privatization—these bastions of community support are losing the autonomy that has allowed them to embolden the minds of the youth they serve. Baldridge captures the stories of loss and resistance within this context of immense external political pressure, arguing powerfully for the damage caused when the same structural violence that Black youth experience in school, starts to occur in the places they go to escape it.

Reclaiming the Environmental Debate

2000 Environmental health
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Release : 2000
Genre : Environmental health
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Book Rating : 820/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reclaiming the Environmental Debate by : Richard Hofrichter

Download or read book Reclaiming the Environmental Debate written by Richard Hofrichter. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting a diversity of voices and critical perspectives, the essays in this book range from critiques of traditional thinking and practices to strategies for shifting public consciousness to create healthy communities.

Reclaiming Nostalgia

2012 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 34X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reclaiming Nostalgia by : Jennifer K. Ladino

Download or read book Reclaiming Nostalgia written by Jennifer K. Ladino. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. In Reclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladino assesses the ideological effects of this phenomenon by tracing its dominant forms in American literature and culture since the closing of the frontier in 1890. While referencing nostalgia for pastoral communities and for untamed and often violent frontiers, she also highlights the ways in which nostalgia for nature has served as a mechanism for social change, a model for ethical relationships, and a motivating force for social and environmental justice.

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